₦airaland Forum

switch47:
------------it all depends on intution, you can assist the needy and still assist the church. and it also depends on the church. personaly i wont drop 1 million for RCCG ---------its all about what is going on in your spiritual mind.I AM NOT A MEMBER OF RCCG AND I ALSO HAVE MANY RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE CHURCH> that does not mean i should condemn those who give money to the church like am being paid to do so. and that does not mean i should declare pastor Adeboye a fake because his members pay tithes and make donations!! most of this things been said on this thread is not what said but how said. many of the things the critics say here goes a longway to reveal the kind of persons they are.

@ Nex

Oni of ifeis not the custodian of yoruba tradition. if a particular ooni decides to vommit rubbish about a certain person who brought one yeye fowl---bla bla bla. that does not make it correct.

beaf: Make una seize noise!
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Give your lives to da lord!
Why continue to worship mamon?
Why worship at the alter of false prophets with the split tongues of serpents?

I have been raised to open an endtime miracle church. Come for your miracle today!
Yes the book says, "By their fruits ye shall know them"! I can vouch that I do not yet have a jet plane.
All are invited for a feast of blessings.

Date: 18 August 2009
Venue: Ojuelegba
Gate fee: $10.00 person only
Front seat fee: $200.00 per person only

Come as you are! There is a section for everybody; we welcome womanisers to our "pololo section", we have the best strippers; weewee smokers can buy at a blessed price; if gambling is your thing, come right in and be blessed by our sumptious arcade!

Governors! Politicians! Thieves and oil bunkerers! The lord calls you; you are chosen for special Damascus road blessings; the fee for every contract blessing is just $1.5 million. It is easy to give to the lord! Come and be blessed!

Daughters in the lord! You are welcome! Out of my loins flow endless blessings!

The spirit has summoned my attention to certain works of iniquity on this thread! Ha!
I wept at the words of nuzo, who declared himself a demi god . nuzo beloved you have sinned a great sin, the atonement of which requires a brimming container of Chinese goods (I can recieve at our Alaba branch).

Behold, I saw the heavens open and a voice like seven tempests roared, "tpiah* will be banned again from both NL and Dugbe market. One the third day, after obeisance she shall rise and dwell amongst akara sellers forevermore!"

Rejoice! The day of the lord commeth!

Ibime:
Unfortunately this thread has degenerated into tribal chest-thumping. I would hope that my ND brothers learn to deal with debates with our Igbo cousins without resorting to ethnic jingoism. In present day Nigeria, there is no bigger supporter of the Niger-Delta cause than the Igbo.

Nchara:
So are Imo and Abia. Not so? Please pull Ondo back to SW

bawomolo:
are you jealous you haven't been blessed enough to have guilder belly?
why you dey hate now.

nex: By the way, our list is still open. Since no one can think of anything done by the slave masters in Abuja, Abia and Adamawa states, we're now on Akwa Ibom. Please somebody tell us a single thing they did there. Don't be shy, nothing is too small

Nchara:
But you missed out on Imo and Abia as ND state? Please move Ondo to SW, where it rightly belongs, for the purpose of the ensuing argument. Thanks

bawomolo:
these are officers and not some kwe kwe enlisted soldiers.

Nchara:
Beaf: Good that it is literacy in any language, in which case the north cannot be said to be highly illiterate since many can read and write in Arabic. Why did you give ONDO a bold face (if I may ask)? Statistically-speaking, most of the states are not significantly different as shown in your table. But can you now compare the total population of each of those states to the % literate?

sjeezy8:
literacy has nothing to do with poverty in nigeria there are alot of jobless graduates esp in the west

Nchara:
That was just a list and does not rank the states according to their literacy levels. So why your claim? We will like to know how many people are in for e.g., Imo state and how many of those can read and write (the basic definition of literacy) as compared to say Edo state. Same for other states in the south. The North, we know already their literacy inclinations

These are literacy rates (in any language, including Yoruba) for Southern Nigeria. In English, the figures would be dramatically different. As you can see, ND does quite well. Nobody is begging ND people to be educated, thank you.

[table]
[tr][td]State[/td][td]Literacy Rate[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Lagos[/td][td]89.90[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Rivers[/td][td]82.60[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Akwa Ibom[/td][td]81.60[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Abia[/td][td]79.90[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Anambra[/td][td]77.80[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Edo[/td][td]77.00[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ondo[/td][td]76.60[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Enugu[/td][td]75.60[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Cross River[/td][td]75.50[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Imo[/td][td]75.40[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ekiti[/td][td]75.00[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Osun[/td][td]74.80[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Delta[/td][td]74.40[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ogun[/td][td]69.60[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Bayelsa[/td][td]68.10[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Ebonyi[/td][td]57.70[/td][/tr]
[/table]

Onlytruth:
Don't worry about me or Igbos. We hold no ambitions over that part of the world (if you can use your head for once). Worry about those who are there already to deal decisively with your type. Like I said before, the Igbos don't need to do anything. We have far more lucrative and bigger real estate to aim for. I can't stoop to give you a hint. You are on your own!

It was a hatred that I developed from Ibadan where I did my NYSC in 2005/2006 due to percieved injustices done to me by the pople. The impression they gave me was a people who don't care about any other person; a people who take tribalism to the peak; a people who never mind their businesses but gossip at the slightest opportunity; a people ,

Fhemmmy:
i am sure some of the richest nigerians are in the north as well.

To take care of these discrepancies especially in admission for high density education areas (Oyo, Lagos, Edo, Delta, Imo, Akwa-Ibom, Cross-Rivers, Anambra States) and the low density education areas (Kaduna, Sokoto, Borno, Adamawa, Kano, Niger, Zamfara states), quota system (catchment area) has to be applied.

Tompolo is a highly-organised person from what was seen at Camp 5 and his Oporoza home showed he is a man of taste. Virtually every room in the apartment, which some sources said is the community's guest house is luxuriously furnished. The house has between 17-20 rooms with three sitting rooms.

The militant leader has a communication room in the mansion, where he keeps in touch with the world and things happening around him globally. Major General Yarkin-Bello was interested when one of his men picked up a photograph of a jet fighter, suspected to have been downloaded from the internet by Tompolo.

It was discovered from the avalanche of newspapers in his room that Tompolo could be an avid reader of newspapers for virtually the copies of every major national newspaper were found there and he also downloaded news stories published by newspapers on the internet inside his house. The JTF told newsmen earlier that it recovered a cyber cafe used by the militants.

Governor Uduaghan also marvelled at various findings the JTF commander said he made in the house, particularly the arms found in the ceilings and the laundry room.

tensor777:
The truth of the matter is that economic development in the Niger Delta would only come when and until all the militants lay down their arms. The wise ones are doing so presently.

The rest should brace themselves for another military onslaught in the coming dry season as a result of which they would be forced to lay down their arms.
It is actually that simple.

A highly placed government source said that the comment by Hillary Clinton can hardly be faulted, saying that foreigners know more about Nigeria than Nigerians know about their country.

nex:
Abeg they should ask Hillary Clinton about the fact that despite the USA producing three times the amount of crude Nigeria produces, they still import refined fuels from Venezuela accompanied by insults from Hugo Chavez. Is that a sign of good leadership in the USA?

Onlytruth:
Did you mean "wipe them off the Nigerian map"? There are those who are already warming up for that. No hurry my friend!

JomoGbomo2:
@ Beaf, please dont take this personal, i just want to ask you this question.

Do you beleive the numbers you posted is the actual reflection of what we have out there in the soceity? if so i take that clause back but if not then we have to find the gap  and bridge it.

Another thing i will want you to acknowledge is that 90% of 50 is far less than 50% of 200 and thats why i dont like percantage in maths, it doesn't give the true reflection of numbers in their whole sense. (thats y the banks use them to confuse us the more: apology to my banker folks).

Then lastly, everything i said is not just from the outside, especially when it comes to education, ND is my Alma-mata, thats the place i call "home" whenever i use that word. Everything my dad has is there. so pardon me if you dont like my choice of words.

JomoGbomo2:
. . . ND youths need to be educated not begged to be educated, ND youths needs to be more serious. . .

Even Henry Okah, who has long been considered a MEND leader and was released from prison last month in what seemed a test run of the amnesty deal, denied that the effort would work. “How many weapons have been recovered?” Mr. Okah said in a telephone interview. “What makes it a success? Where are the weapons? I think it’s all just a joke.”

The outcome is of far more than academic interest to the United States. West Africa was supplying about 15 percent of daily oil imports by the middle of this decade, and Nigeria, as the world’s 11th largest producer, was by far the biggest regional source, according to a 2007 paper in International Policy Report by three American experts.

Little of that wealth has made it down to the Delta, however. The same experts cited figures showing that 80 percent of oil money goes to 1 percent of the Nigerian population.