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Iyaebe:Ned is old enough for Regina to be his last born and he knows that without telling. So he is more likely to accommodate silliness from her the way he would from his daughters, much more when Regina isn't his only wife and he is a rich man. However that does not mean marriages of that type don't have their own challenges. Regina can hardly ever have a soulmate in Ned or have her romantic fantasies fulfilled in him. Inside every woman there is still that dream of tall, handsome and romantic husband you can roll on the beach and in the bed with that sometimes gnaw terribly at the woman from the inside. You can see some of that when Regina says Ned looks like a farmer. It is not a compliment. Similarly Ned is likely to feel insecure around her and be tempted to limit her freedom. You could see some of that in the rituals she passed through to become a wife. Women who may be envying Regina should realise it's only the good parts that get posted on Instagram. |
Raalsalghul:Pursue your dream with your resources. You can always buy land and build a house later. If your dream is worth pursuing, it is also an investment. Be sure not to lose focus because some purported side investments that become distractions. |
ahnie:Building a business is hard. Building a marriage is hard. Most times people don't see marriage as an institution that require work and commitment. All the things that make building a great work team also apply to marriage. Things like communication, sacrifice, trust and looking out for each other. If a hard working team member suddenly changes attitude, you try to trace back what went wrong and how can it be corrected for the overall good of the team. When such happens in marriage, some spouses simply say their partners changed and start the blame game without bothering to trace issues. From all the OP has said, it is difficult to give any advice without assumptions. I would tell him to either give more details or go back and communicate with his wife. Let them trace back and bare their minds to each other to know what went wrong. There is hardly smoke without fire. It is against the law of nature that people suddenly change without any reason at all. |
Ammishaddai:How have the Fulani minority lorded it over the North and indeed the entire Nigeria? Do all other Nigerians including you really enjoy the Fulani rule? What is the population of the politicians running this country aground? Why can we rise against them? When you reflect on all that, then you realise that it is hasty and a tad thoughtless to say Afghanis enjoy the Taliban. When an organized group of minority have executive power, religious power or military power, they can lord it over the majority. It is a fact observable across countries and centuries of human existence. The majoroty are difficult to organize, have moles, betrayers, selfish groups and what have you. And as long as they are not united, the organized minority rules. |
madridguy:Your kind of thinking is very dangerous. It is divisive, shallow, tribalistic and should never be condoned in any way! It is surprising that you see nothing wrong with a convicted drug dealer, who had misused his diplomatic position, being in charge of sensitive personal information of millions of Nigerians. What stops him from abusing the trust and misusing those information for personal profit just as he did with his position as a diplomat? You are also not bothered that the NIS had gotten itself involved in a contract wherein it is largely at the mercy of a private company in the management of passport data and designed to incur high penalties should it try to change the position. Despite the foregoing among other issues, that what you see is tribalism and sectional politics, should be a source of worry to you. Please change your mindset. |
SarkinYarki:It is the typical Nigeria Government and institutional way of responding to issues. The first is to issue a denial. Now when it is still in the news and they cannot deny anymore, they admit and say there were some mistakes with some of the handbooks. They will never directly admit to any fault or hold themselves responsible! |
imam07:Not necessarily in ordee of importance, I would pick the following as the most influential Nigerians of all time: 1. Kaduna Nzeogwu and his group for the most definitive coup that changed the trajectory or journey of Nigeria as a nation till date. 2. Obafemi Awolowo for the effects of Free Education on Western Nigeria, his impact during the Civil War as Finance Minister and for championing Federalism in the country. |
FreeStuffsNG:The truth and reality on ground is that the naira has dropped in purchasing power terribly. You people should really stop confusing the public and trying to make a case for a strong naira. I have attached a screenshot of a website detailing the historical fall in purchasing power of the naira from 2009 to 2020. What 58.5 units of the Local Currency could purchase in 2009 is now being purchased by 144.3 units and you say the naira is still strong. Haba! You people need to fear God o! https://knoema.com/atlas/Nigeria/topics/Economy/Inflation-and-Prices/Purchasing-power-parity?mode=amp
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dasparrow:They can name and block the accounts of alleged EndSars sponsors but have a problem naming Boko Haram sponsors due to one excuse or the other. Now we can clearly see how sympathetic they are to Boko Haram and why the Boko Haram war will never end during their tenure! United Arab Emirates (UAE) has already named terrorism sponsors including at least 6 from Nigeria. That is a country that is responsible. |
Kingpele:I have never seen where the genuine solution to a problem is restricting information or killing transparency. If you observe the following: 1. The FG suspending Twitter and trying to monitor or kill social media through an obnoxious bill at NASS. The excuse is that some people are trying to use social media to subvert the country. 2. The FG through the NBC trying to control both public and private broadcast stations on reportage of insecurity, killings, Boko Haram and other related issues. One of the excuses is that they don't want the moral of the military fighthing insurgency to be dampened. 3. FG trying to intimidate CNN for EndSars reporting, claiming the army didn't commit attrocities. Fortunately or unfortunately, discoveries at the ongoing EndSars panel in Lagos buttress the fact that the army fired live bulleta at the scene! 4. Arm twisting AbokiFX to stop publishing rates despite the rates being sourced from the open market with 1 or 2% variation at best. The excuse is that AbokiFX is selling Forex or manipulating rates; allegations without evidence! All these point to a manner of thinking well obtainable in North Korea and other repressive regimes that try to paint different pictures of reality to make up for their failure. FG should address root problems instead of trying to suppress information. Suppressing information will not make Nigeria Army to win Boko Haram. It will not make Naira to appreciate against the Dollar or Nigerians on social media to become patriotic overnight when the failures of the Government are staring them in the face on a daily basis. |
DubaiLandLord1:Are the BDC operators not licensed by the same CBN? Was it not some months earlier that same CBN Governor was distributing BDC Licenses reportedly to politicians? After raising the licensing fees for the BDCs and supplying them dollars for years, the CBN now wants to do away with them despite realising that a large volume of Forex transactions go through these same BDCs even for legitimate purposes? It is understandable that simple economics will lead to increase in exchange rate by the BDCs from having to source scarce dollars through various avenues. Those suggesting BDCs should be wiped out, have you considered the economic impact of their sudden wipeout without addressing the circumstances that led to their existence in the first place? |
MrBrownJay1:How about you realising that the woman owns the capital and the owner of the capital owns the interests on the investment, whether stolen or not! She is fully entitled to the entire 100m. |
lwisee:Why is CBN behaving like a thug and having people support it? If there is any violation of regulation or law, the appropriate place to go is the Court. Unilaterally placing embargo on a company's account for publishing forex rates when it is not that the bank accounts are being used for fraud is the height of irresponsibility by CBN and its collaborators. Even embargoes on bank accounts need Court orders! |
Offpoint1:You have refused to point out my contradictions as claimed in your earlier response. That gives me an impression you use words flippantly. That aside, you claim not to be a Muslim and you are apparently not a Christian. So what are you? If you are an atheist it is pointless discussing God with someone who doesn't agree God exists in the first instance. Why I am concerned about your religion is to discern if you really want to learn or already have a position you hold regardless of any evidence or superior argument. Matthew 24:36 is clear. The Son is Jesus Christ and the Father is Yahweh. Nothing in that verse shatters Trinity eccept you do not know what Trinity means. Your concluding statement shows you are confused. See, Yahweh is God, Jesus is God but Jesus is not Yahweh. The Son is not the Father. But both the Son and the Father are God. God is a title. God is Godhead. God is Elohim. Elohim can refer to Jesus, Yahweh or the Holy Spirit. The word God is a TITLE! Let that sink in. Just like King. If you ask a Muslim who created Adam, he will respond that it is Allah (God). But you now ask him why did Allah say in Quran 15:26 that "We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape...". Who are the WE? The average Muslim becomes silent at this point because the concept contradicts his monotheistic God belief. The apologetic Muslim will try to say Allah is trying to honour himself by referring to himself in the plural just like the Yoruba use "They said" for what a single adult said as mark of respect. But this is Allah talking about himself and not a third party report. Who would he say he shared the task of creating Adam with? The answer is explained through Trinity and the Godhead. That WE is borrowed clearly from the Bible. Elohim is plural. And in Genesis 1 God is translated from Elohim in the original Hebrew version. Elohim is Trinity and the Godhead. So saying you have an argument from the Bible to defeat Trinity shows you have no understanding of Trinity in the first place. |
Offpoint1:I will appreciate if you point out the alleged contradictions in my earlier response. He who asserts carries the burden of proof. Now to respond to you proper, I presume you are not a Christian and just someone picking those verses from the Bible to back a predetermined position. If I presume wrongly, prove me wrong. I have told you, God is a title and for Christians, that is the Godhead or the Trinity. The original languages of the Bible are Hebrew and Aramaic. If you read through Genesis 1 you would see it used God throughout. But when it came to Genesis 2 it used "The Lord God". In Hebrew the former is Elohim which is generic name for the Godhead and in English is translated as God. The latter is Elohim-Yahweh which specifically refers to the Father in the Godhead and translated in English as Lord God. All your bolded refrences on God are to Elohim which is Godhead. If Jesus uses it, he refers to the Father, Yahweh. If it is used by anyone else, it is simply Godhead and can mean Father, Son or the Holy Spirit. If you are a Muslim you will find the concept of Trinity or Godhead very hard to understand because the Islamic God has no specific name. Allah is a generic name for the supreme being and even that name predates Islam. And accepting Trinity is contrary to Islamic faith. However, if you cearly understand that God is a title, just like King, you would see things differently. The statement in John 10:30 is best understood from John 10:33 where the Jews present and who heard Jesus speak those words said: "We are not stoning you for any good work," they replied, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God." Where did Jesus claim to be God? It is none other than in John 10:30 which preceeded their accusation. Both the speaker and hearer clearly understand themselves centuries before you own personal interpretation! There is no doubt that Jesus saying I and my Father as one imply Jesus is God. |
Offpoint1:Jesus is God. In John 10:30 Jesus himself said that he and the Father are one. And that was why the Jews sought to kill him because he equated himself with God. A lot of people do not understand that God is a title and not a specific name. The name of the Father is Yahweh. The Christian God exists in the Godhead (The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit) which is the essence of God. The Trinity or Godhead is made up of three distinct entities who are all God because they are manifestations of the Father. God is defined by attributes. God is the creator of the world, the giver of life and forgiver of sins. Whenever Jesus says "My God", he is referring to the Father but that does not make Jesus not to be God. Jesus has been recorded to forgive sins, give life (even in the Quranic account), was there at creation and would come to judge the world. All these being task and capabilities of God. In Genesis 1:26, God said "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, ...." Man is made in the image of God and yet here God says "Let us". Clearly God was not talking to angels or any other beings that could not be equated to Him because those whom He was talking to apparently had the same image with Him. That was why God said "in our image, in our likeness". In some other religion the concept of God is different and trying to understand the Christian God through their views can create difficulties. For example in Islam, God is called Allah but has no specific name. He is only described by other labels such as the Merciful, etc. So for Muslims or anyone coming from similar background, understanding Trinity or Godhead from their own concept of God is not easy. |
Jerryherd:I would have loved for him to have stated that he has never had sexual relations of any kind with the girls under OAFP or that passed through him. Strictly linking it to sex for roles give room for manoeuvres. When a girl is under you or desperate for something within your power, you may not specifically use that thing as bait but simply say you like them and want to date them and would be of value to them. And they agree not because they love you but because they don't want to jeopardize their chances. That is why it is difficult for a lecturer taking a student in an important course to simply say their relationship is consensual. |
adenigga:Please can someone tell Sheikh Gumi that bandits and EndSars protesters or Niger Delta militants are not in the same category? A protester is someone protesting against something he or she is not comfortable with. We can all identify with that. A militant is someone taking up arms and violence to support a political or social cause. It is bad we know. But a bandit is simply an armed robber or a thief carrying arms to waylay and plunder. A bandit is not fighting for any cause. A bandit is simply a selfish human being who has no respect for the rights of others and does not mind killing others to steal their things. So how can you plead amnesty for such? Why is he comparing vegetables with thorns? Gumi needs to be arrested. Seriously. If he can say this in public only God knows what he tells the bandits in secret in his meetings with them! |
Terrence99:Please add to the 3 things: your engineer, your accountant, your security, your managememt staff, etc. Actually the only jobs suitable for recruitment through tribalism are at best unskilled and casual jobs! How many businessmen run their recruitment through tribalism? Dangote? BUA? Everyone knows tribalism and productivity don't work well together. It is only Government that is the dumping ground for all sorts! |
micko93:Government ideally is about the overall good of the community. Thieves can argue they are making a livelihood but their livelihood is infringing on the rights of others. That is why society made stealing a crime. If your livelihood is creating problems and infringing on the rights of others, then it is time to look for another source of livelihood or seriously amend your ways. Nigeria was not created for Fulani and even in the African country of Guinea where they are the largest ethnic group, they don't get to dictate for others, how much more in Nigeria where they are just a minority! |
adenigga:If the official minimum wage is N30,000 per month, then there is no reason why any worker, junior or not, should be earning less than the minimum wage as a Federal staff! |
Praxis758:It is easier to expose attrocities of a super cop who is under suspension and indictment that is known to the general public than when he was still seen as a model super cop without stain. In such instances, any individual trying to expose him can be easily targeted for harm and shut down. Such person could even be tagged as enemy of progress by the super cop and the general public. |
thebosstrevor1:When one looks at some of the topics you created on this forum as shown below, it is easy to surmise that you have a destabilization agenda and you are a "blame merchant". 1. Southern Christians Stop Acting Like You Love Northern Christians 2. It Is Only Christians That Provoke Muslims In This World 3. "Dr" Goodluck Jonathan Is The Reason Nigeria Economic Is in Crisis 4. Inter Ethnic Marriages Can Be Very Dangerous All that aside it is pertinent to note that Christianity and Judaism predated Islam by at least 500 years. Surprisingly Islam came and after copying copiously from books in these two religion, turned around to say the Christian Gospels gave erroneous accounts about Jesus and that the patriarchs of Judaism were muslims and prophets of Islam! It went further by attacking the divinity of Jesus, saying God had no wife and could not have a child and also trying to claim Jerusalem as a holy Islamic site. The Ottoman Empire took Islam on its campaigns by conquering and forcing nations under the pain of death to convert to Islam. When Jews returned to their ancestral lands in Isreal after the holocaust, Islamic nations took up arms against them with the aim of eradicating them from the face of the earth! After all these, someone comes and says Christians are the ones always provoking Muslims? From all the foregoing, who is the agent provocateur? Anyway, maybe you trying to play reverse psychology or you didn't bother to get your facts right before posting? Or it is afterall one of your destabilization tactics? |
vedaxcool:It is not the adherents or religion for whom the gates are flung open that matters as much as the fact that flinging gates open to a military facility for religious reasons is a security risk! You have only validated the man's claims that religion is one of the key issues here! Don't think your claim that they also fling it open for Christians make any difference to the security risk. There is need to think deeply about issues before rushing to comment or being sentimental. |
greenie77:Yes. You are right. Dibu Ojerinde the former JAMB Registrar is currently in detention. However the Federal Government should use the opportunity of this discovery to reduce the cost of JAMB forms to candidates to make life easier for the candidates and their parents, some of whom are struggling to purchase forms and pay fees. JAMB was not setup to be a profit making enterprise and FG should realize that and do the needful. |
madridguy:We need to really think about issues critically before rushing to applaud the Taliban spokesman. Facebook Company operates a private business platform for which the company has formulated terms and conditions of use for its various users. Users of Facebook have the freedom of leaving the platform or not using it at all. Freedom of speech as a human right involves you having the liberty to speak and express yourself vocally or in writing through any media of your choice without fear of retaliation, punishment or sanctions, typically by the Government. For a Government spokesman who is asked about freedom of speech under their Government to refer to a private business platform's censorship is shallow, evasive and an attempt to manipulate the public. Afghans can stop using Facebook without any major effect on their lives, but when Government sanctions freedom of speech, are they expected to leave the country? When Government threatens them with imprisonment or death to stifle free speech, what other alternative do they have? Please stop comparing stones and oranges! |
freemantic:The so-called Anglican Priest should be sacked or demoted with immediate effect for several reasons: 1. Putting the health of the students at risk by deliberately violating Covid-19 protocols. 2. Engaging in sexual conduct with students including harassment. Kissing a female student on the mouth is nothing short of sexual misconduct! 3. Bringing the office of the Priest and the Anglican Church into disrepute by his actions. |
Adisa89:Afghans are not complaining but cramming themselves into available planes to leave Kabul? You may argue the issue of morality and I may not comment. However it is not only the people but the world as well that needs to complain and sit up when a regime comes into power that decrees death sentence for educating a girl child or makes education haram! Any set of people who want to breed uneducated populace in this day and time is a threat to the modern world. They may as well be breeding thugs, terrorists and what have you and the world needs to take note and act! |
Humbrown23:It is not even about forgetting the criminals of yesterday, it is worse when we eulogize them and praise them openly!!! When we praise the people that ruined our economic future and pushed us down the hill, then we have a crazy type of Stockholm Syndrome. You cannot praise and reward thieves, coup plotters, political rascals and all sorts of anti-progress people and expect your country to develop. People who should be in jail are now Elder Statesmen, Patriots and Advisers to those in power! Haba. We need to be ashamed! |
Kastonkastroll:This is bad and discriminatory statement! The young man is not bad looking and aside the fact that he is using a wheel chair, there is nothing wrong with him. He is well educated and has a sharp mind. There are men who are physically challenged and not rich who still get married to good looking or presentable women. So why discriminate against them and make it look that the lady is dating or getting married to him because of money?! Please change your mindset and watch your utterances to avoid hurting people unnecessarily. |
Mokason288:A tablet of Paracetamol is typically 500mg which is 0.5grams because 1000 milli-grams equal 1gram. Please be careful to dispense correct information in the public domain as some would take your words without cross-checking wthere true or false. |
ignis:Pushing VREG under the Finance Ministry is setting it up for failure, particularly without the support of the Police, FRSC and Joint Tax Board. |
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