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CrescentMoon:
The first time I became aware of me falling sick was in 2007. I was 26 at the time. Since then it has been a myriad of medical troubles.

It has been cycles of malaria, bacterial infections, disc problems and headache. Every night, I take drugs before I could be able to sleep. I always have antimalarials, antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants handy. If malaria symptoms occur, I would take antimalarials and there would be improvement within minutes. And would then complete the dosage in 3 days. By fourth day, symptoms of bacteria infection would occur; I would take ciprofloxacin and get relieved within minutes. Once I complete the dosage, headache would strike, and once aspirin is taken, I get well. But I would keep repeating aspirin every night until gastric ulceration sets in. I would then buy omeprasole and cimetidine to treat ulcer. While ulcer treatment is ongoing, malaria would strike again, and I would take antimalarials. If antimalarials don't work, I would know that the symptoms are bacterial and take antibiotic. If there is no relief, I would combine antimalarials and antibiotic and there would be a relief. It has been like this since 2007. I don't go to hospital again because I have grown to know these symptoms and what doctors would prescribe.

For the past 2 weeks, I have been battling 'herniated disc' problem in my lower back. It started the day I bent down suddenly and I heard a snapping sound at my back bone. I started using norflex, calcium supplement and diclofenac. I feel mild relief because I can't stop my daily hustle to rest while the disc heals. If I dont work in a day, I won't eat or pay bills.

Note that I undergo HIV test almost weekly.

How do the poor tackle medical problems in this hellhole of a country?

Lalasticlala, please help me move this to fp.

So sorry to read about your ailments. I can empathise with what you're going through.
From what I could discern, this screams depression all over. I've been there before, and even then I just couldn't entertain the possibility that it was actually depression. The thing about depression is that it sets in slowly and silently and it actually affects immune system a lot.

Truth is everybody handles life differently and some people are more susceptible than others. The timing of the onset of your ailments fits in perfectly with midlife crises.

Why don't you try to visit a psychologist instead, you've got nothing to lose.

It is well with you.

CrescentMoon:
The first time I became aware of me falling sick was in 2007. I was 26 at the time. Since then it has been a myriad of medical troubles.

It has been cycles of malaria, bacterial infections, disc problems and headache. Every night, I take drugs before I could be able to sleep. I always have antimalarials, antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants handy. If malaria symptoms occur, I would take antimalarials and there would be improvement within minutes. And would then complete the dosage in 3 days. By fourth day, symptoms of bacteria infection would occur; I would take ciprofloxacin and get relieved within minutes. Once I complete the dosage, headache would strike, and once aspirin is taken, I get well. But I would keep repeating aspirin every night until gastric ulceration sets in. I would then buy omeprasole and cimetidine to treat ulcer. While ulcer treatment is ongoing, malaria would strike again, and I would take antimalarials. If antimalarials don't work, I would know that the symptoms are bacterial and take antibiotic. If there is no relief, I would combine antimalarials and antibiotic and there would be a relief. It has been like this since 2007. I don't go to hospital again because I have grown to know these symptoms and what doctors would prescribe.

For the past 2 weeks, I have been battling 'herniated disc' problem in my lower back. It started the day I bent down suddenly and I heard a snapping sound at my back bone. I started using norflex, calcium supplement and diclofenac. I feel mild relief because I can't stop my daily hustle to rest while the disc heals. If I dont work in a day, I won't eat or pay bills.

Note that I undergo HIV test almost weekly.

How do the poor tackle medical problems in this hellhole of a country?

Lalasticlala, please help me move this to fp.

So sorry to read about your ailments. I can empathise with what you're going through.
From what I could discern, this screams depression all over. I've been there before, and even then I just couldn't entertain the possibility that it was actually depression. The thing about depression is that it sets in slowly and silently and it actually affects immune system a lot.

Truth is everybody handles life differently and some people are more susceptible than others. The timing of the onset of your ailments fits in perfectly with midlife crises.

Why don't you try to visit a psychologist instead, you've got nothing to lose.

It is well with you.

I believe the honour goes to King Jaja of Opobo.
I stand to be corrected though.

Guestlander:
This was a passage taken from Awo's autobiograhy which was published in January 1960. Read it and ponder on it, that was your nationalist.
His attitude and tactics are eerily similar to what we read from ipobs today.


An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.

Bro, in all sincerity, the battle for supremacy between the east and west was rife in the period mentioned and both sides metted punches in equal measure.
The question is, was it healthy or not. If you say it's unhealthy then both sides were culpable as the were western papers too dedicating their pages to promote the west (Yoruba).
This competition propelled both regions to excel and healthy competition helps everybody.
It becomes a problem when it gets unhealthy.
The crux of the matter is, it never degenerated to hate speech(es).

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scotweezy:
https://www.nairaland.com/post/53579932

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PDJT:
-Atleast TonyeBarcanista disagrees with them with this his submission at 4:38pm on May 16, 2015.

The internet never forgets

TonyeBarcanista:
APC = PDP

APDA is unique in all ramifications.

I beg to differ on that. Going through the press release from APDA the other day, the spokesman while trying to drum support for the party made some pro-restructuring comments.

However, on critical analysis of APDA stance on resource control, they only mentioned land resource and solid minerals resource as being right of the state, liquid mineral resource however was conspicuously absent.

Same puddle, different name #APDA.

Guestlander:
You make me laugh, there were many. There was a speech he made in 1948 at Igbo state union in which he spoke about the god of igbo eventually giving the leadership of Nigera and Africa to igbo, that is not how Nkruma and Julius Nyerere spoke. There was a particular article he wrote, again in the 40s that he titled football illiad. Please find it and tell me if he sounded like a nationalist.

Can you kindly furnish me with any available sources for the speech and/or the said publication titled football illiad.
I've searched extensively but can't find it on Google.
Cheers.

enemyofprogress:
Hmmmmmmn see burnt offering

you live up to your moniker

States should depend on their cash crops and solid mineral resources ✓
Liquid mineral resources?

salford1:
Olodo. Gowon released Awolowo from prison not ojukwu.

1st August 1966 Gowon Takes over as head of State.
Awolowo released from Prison 3rd August 1966.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191679-why-i-released-awolowo-from-prison-gowon.html

kindly read this in its entirety...
http://republicreporters.com/ojukwu-released-awolowo-from-calabar-jail-i-released-awolowo-from-jail-even-that-some-people-are-beginning-to-contest-as-well-awo-was-in-jail-in-calabar-gowon-knows-and-the-whole-of-the-federal/

you are free to research further

victorDanladi:
lolz


be deceiving yourself!


And that beautiful Igbo woman Allison maduekwe corrected that while she was the Ijaw's petroleum minister.

The Igbo woman really made judicious use of Ijaw oil and gas to prove that they are different from hausa fulani.

Photos: EFCC uncovers Diezani’s $37.5m POSH
house in Banana Island
ON February 12, 2017 9:29 PM / IN News,
Photos / BY Tony / 0 Comments
By Anthony Ogbonna


Pictures have emerged indicating a Lagos $37.5m
POSH house or Naira equivalent of N11.75bn said to
be allegedly owned by the former Minister of
Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/photos-efcc-uncovers-diezanis-37-5m-posh-house-banana-island/



EFCC in another breakthrough discovers Diezani’s
$37.5m Lagos mansion
ON February 11, 2017 5:16 AM / IN News / BY
Adekunle / 0 Comments


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in
another breakthrough in Lagos said that it has
discovered a Lagos mansion worth the sum of
N11.75bn allegedly said to be that of former Minister
of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/efcc-another-breakthrough-discovers-37-5m-diqzanis-lagos-mansion/



Some beneficiaries in Kwara got N450m from Alison-
Madueke as bribe – EFCC
ON June 10, 2017 6:23 PM / IN Crime Guard,
News / BY Adekunle / Comments


The Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC)
Friday said that some named some top officers of
the Nigerian Police Force and civil servants who
allegedly benefited from a bribe scandal totaling
$115m doled out by former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.


www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/beneficiaries-kwara-got-n450m-alison-madueke-bribe-efcc/




Diezani’s bribe: Court rejects plea bargain for INEC
official
ON April 27, 2017 3:15 PM / IN News / BY
Adekunle / Comments


Lagos – A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday
held that a plea bargain agreement between the
EFCC and an INEC official charged with money
laundering, cannot avail the accused.
Justice Mohammed Idris held that by the provisions
of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA),
such an accused deserves a heavier sentence.



www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/diezanis-bribe-court-rejects-plea-bargain-inec-official/




Court orders final forefeiture of N34bn linked to
Allison-Madueke
ON February 16, 2017 8:45 PM / IN News / BY
Nwafor Polycarp / Comments
A Federal High Court Lagos on Thursday ordered the
final forfeiture of the sum of N34 billion (153 million
dollars) linked to a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke.
Justice Muslim Hassan issued the order while
delivering judgment in a suit by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking the
forfeiture of the money as proceeds of crime.


www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/court-orders-final-forefeiture-n34bn-linked-allison-madueke/



Diezani to forfeit $153m to FG, court orders
ON January 7, 2017 1:08 AM / IN News / BY
Okogba / Comments
By Innocent Anaba
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday,
ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of
$153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum
Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly
siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC and stashed in three banks in the
country, namely Sterling Bank Plc, First Bank Plc and
Access Bank Plc.


www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/diezani-forfeit-153m-fg-court-orders/

quit peddling lies as facts, diezeani alison-madueke is ijaw.

These population increase predictions scare me, I don't know why people see it as a positive, I see it as a disaster waiting to happen.

I believe the root cause of all our problems lie with our unhealthy population growth, it's what breeds all the corruption and crime and it's never an advantage anymore in the present world order where technology and machines have become the mainstay and will continue to be as they are 1000% more efficient.

This is why Africa will continue to lose out on the globalized economy. Cos human labor is expensive and not very efficient hence high cost of production compared to industrialized economies and consequentially import oriented economies #nigeria #africa

Well spoken Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, well spoken.

bizzibodi:
which hate speech?publish it.

Couldn't be bothered, Google it. It was even an interview with a white man #bbc
String this along your search, Sardauna+speech+Igbo+interview

bizzibodi:
fayose is a foool on cocaine,this hatred stated as far back as 1966 when igbo army officers massacred top northern army officer& politicians like ahmadu bello & tafawa balewa that is a dearing & war-mongering behaviour.that lead 2 a gencidal civil war,they didnot learn anything frm history they hav started again.

I beg to differ. how about the speech from the Sardauna? that was hate speech and first from a constituted authority in Nigeria. do you now see precedence?

XXLDICK:
I'm Igbo but and likewise a patroitic Nigerian.


I'm not a fan of Buhari, but the truth is that the igbos have said far worse things than he.
A classical example is Jonathan's wife and her born throway speech, Nnamdi Kanu and his numerous hate speeches...

IPOBs are just getting​ other igbos in trouble.

I want to state it here that many igbos especially those living outside the SE do not hold same views as those crazy IPOBs

Just pointing out some errors here, since when did Patience or Jonathan become Igbo?

simplycarro:
My question is why didn't you elect Senators and Representatives to Abuja in 2015 that will bring up the issue of Referendum and Biafra up at NASS.? Those that are not cowards or ashamed to throw it up in the Senate and HoR

Oh I remember, you only took that option after the 2015 election.

have you ever listened to the oath elected officers take? is there a clause in the Constitution for a referendum?
this should answer your questions.

NwaAmaikpe:


The only thing wrong with that billboard is that they did not perforate the flex material like it's done in Naija..

Meaning people can vandalize it and use it to make canopies and kiosks.

Actually I think the perforations has more to do with reducing structural stresses that build up due to windspeed that may occur perpendicular to it.
Simply put, it reduces resistance to airflow.

Avery200:
pls how much is for a drivers licence in portharcourt or is dere a fixed amount

just follow the process outlined by OP. there are no differential prices. 6k for 3 year validity and 10k for five year validity (additional 350 naira will be added to each option as charges)

Adeapex:
Gurus in the house Pls i need help on how to get the playstore app installed and working on my phone manufactured in china.

Search for Google play services apk from your browser then install

BRIGHTRIVERS:
How can somebody resist that sweet experience of Sex for a life time?? Why is this spirit of Thomas telling me not all nuns are chaste?

LOL. Not all are chaste. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. They are committed nonetheless.

Kennitrust:
thanks.
but the FRSC is putting at N17500

The cost is #6000 for 3 years validity and #10000 for 5 years validity.
you can do it online through road safety website (just Google Nigeria drivers license).
Put in your driver's license number to get started and then fill the rest of the online form. Ensure you indicate yes for capturing and select your preferred capturing center. (if you have captured before i recommend you indicate yes either way)
Print it and proceed to the bank for payment (there's option for online payment. tried online payment before but it didn't work).
Make sure the payment is processed to payarena and not TSA (the teller at the bank should be able to sort this out). There's a bank charge of #330.
After payment proceed to the capturing center you indicated when filling the online form for capture and issuance of temporary license pending when the original is ready. (you'll be notified when the original is ready. I'll advise you wait 2-3 days before going for capture to enable your payment to be reflected on their directory).
I've renewed twice using this process successfully.

iamadonis2:
Hello, Nairalanders,

I'm really confused on the issue of paying tithe. Its my first job at 22. I'm a very religious person and that's why I need to sample opinions if I only have to pay tithe in Church.

I know a particular guy who runs an NGO that pays the fees of school kids from poor homes. I offered to sponsor this humanitarian venture. The funds I plan to put into it will be my monthly tithe.

Simple meaning: I will not pay tithe in church. Rather I'll take the exact 10% and support this guy.

Is it proper? Should I only pay tithe in church? Please advise maturely.

Shalom!

Facts on Tithing
by Pastor Ken Lawson

The English word “tithe” as well as its Hebrew-Greek equivalents “ma`aser” and “apodekatoo” means a tenth.

1. Many Christian churches preach tithing as a means of supporting the work of the Lord today. There are many variations of this theme. Some pay the local church one tenth of their income after taxes and bills are paid; some pay before. Others demand tithing on unemployment, inheritance, gifts, tax refunds, social security and even gambling winnings. The tithing issue has caused a great deal of strife and division in our churches over the years.

2. The most well known passage on tithing comes from the Old Testament book of Malachi 3:7-10. This Scripture has given rise to the practice of “Storehouse Tithing.” Simply stated, the congregation is exhorted from the pulpit to channel all of their Christian giving through the local church (storehouse). If they wish to give to a Christian organization, radio or television broadcast, etc., it must go through their denominational machinery in order for the local church to get “credit.” Also the pastor and elders often must make the determination if the cause supported by the giver is “worthy.”

3. This use of the Malachi passage is a good example of Scripture being taken out of its historical and dispensational context. “This whole nation” in verse 9 is the backslidden nation of Israel, NOT the present day church (Malachi 1:1; 3:6). They were under the law of Moses as a system of conditional blessing. Believers today are not under the law but under grace (Romans 6:14). As such we have already been blessed by God with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3) and are under a system of unconditional blessing with grace on the throne (Romans 5:21).

4. This should put an end to the common charge that believers who don’t tithe are “robbing God” and will be “cursed with a curse.” The storehouse mentioned in verse 10 is not a local church but a storage bin or silo in the Jewish temple where the grain from the Hebrew’s tithes was stored (2 Chronicles 31:4-12).

5. Under the law only agricultural products were tithed. They included grain, fruit, and livestock. Only products produced within the boundaries of the land of Israel were to be tithed. Jews living in Gentile lands were exempt (Leviticus 27:30-34).

6. Others exempt from the tithing law included the hired hands, fishermen, miners, lumber workers, construction workers, soldiers, weavers, potters, manufacturers, merchants, government workers, and priests. In short, all who were not farmers were exempt.

7. A farmer with only 9 cattle did not tithe because the law specified the “tenth which passeth under the rod.” Likewise a farmer with 19 sheep paid only 1 sheep to the Lord’s tithe.

8. The Jewish farmers in the land could redeem (buy back) the tithes of their crops with a penalty of one fifth. In other words, if a farmer wishes to keep his tithe of grain worth $1,000, he could pay the cash equivalent of $1,200 (Leviticus 27:31).

9. Livestock could not be brought back nor could the farmer exchange a good animal for a bad one or vice versa. Any attempt to substitute any other animal other than the tenth which passed under the rod would be penalized by the farmer forfeiting both the tenth and its substitute (Leviticus 27:33).

10. God ordained the Levites to be the ones to whom the tithe was paid (Numbers 18:21). They were one of the 12 tribes of Israel to whom no inheritance was given in the land. The Lord Himself and the tithes of the children of Israel was their inheritance. It was used for the service of the tabernacle (later the temple) (Numbers 18:20-28).

11. It was unlawful for anyone outside of the tribe of Levi to receive the tithe, such as prophets, preachers, kings or evangelists.

12. The Levites paid one tenth of their tithes to the high priest. Not all Levites were priests but only the sons of Aaron. The priests did not tithe.

13. The Lord Jesus Christ did not ask for or receive a tithe for support of His ministry. Being of the tribe of Judah (not Levi) He could not without breaking the law (Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5).

14. Neither Peter (not of the tribe of Levi) nor Paul (of the tribe of Benjamin) could receive tithes for the support of their ministries.

15. Even the Jews do not practice tithing today because there are no Levites, priests, or temple worship in Jerusalem. Jewish rabbis know biblical law well enough to know that tithing under the present circumstances is unlawful. According to them, when the temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem with a consecrated altar with priests and Levites officiating, all Jews living within the biblical tithing zones will tithe.

16. Some Christian ministries today continue to support tithing, using the argument that it predates Moses and the law. But this reasoning is not valid, for the Sabbath also predates the giving of the law (Exodus 16:23-29) and yet it is not binding on God’s people today (Romans 14:5,6; Galatians 4:9,10; Colossians 2:16,17).

17. Abraham gave tithes to Melchisedec, king of Salem, but this was the spoils of war, not the legalistic tithe of the land which Moses commanded. Also, God did not command the tithe, Abraham chose to give it of his own free will (Genesis 14:17-23; Hebrews 7:1-10).

18. The only other scriptural reference to tithing before Moses is Jacob. Again there is no command to tithe. In fact Jacob puts up numerous conditions to be met before he will pay the tithe to the Lord (Genesis 28:20-22).

19. The biblical references which address the tithing issues are: Genesis 14:20; 28:22; Leviticus 27:30-32; Numbers 18:20-28; Deuteronomy 12:6,11,17; 14:22,23,28; 26:12; 2 Chronicles 31:5,6,12; Amos 4:4; Malachi 3:8-10; Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42; 18:12; Hebrews 7:5-9.

20. Paul the apostle to the Gentiles for this present dispensation of Grace does not mention tithing but says a great deal about Christian giving. Romans 15:25,26; 1 Corinthians 9:7-14; 16:1-3; 2 Corinthians chapters 8 & 9; Galatians 6:6-10; Philippians 4:10-19; 1 Timothy 5:9-18.

21. WHO is to give to the Lord’s work? The Christian! He gives systematically, sacrificially, and joyfully. TO WHOM does he give? To Christ! FOR WHAT does he give? For the cause of Christ! NOT to a man or to a church, not for gain, but for the Gospel.

Notes:
According to Deuteronomy 14:22,23,28; 26:12; and Amos 4:4, the tithe was only given every three years

Source: https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/facts-on-tithing/

Be guided.

eduevolutionnow:
This is where we should see the power of the Lord. The holy Apostle can just pray about it and let the girl use her mouth to confess everything that's if he is a true man of God(if there is anything like that).

Cheeky

LorDBolton:
Thanks. For the history lesson... but my confusion is with regards to this present day and time.

Maybe I should be more direct:

If enugu is called the "coal city" then it can be assumed it's blessed with large reserves, so why is kogi the choice destination for coal mining??!

Yes it is indeed blessed with large reserves like I noted. From paper sources, it has more deposit than any other state in the country.

As for why it's not being mined, your guess is as good as mine.

Abee79:
Why not invest that money in seeking alternative solutions to our power woes? Affordable Renewable energy options for instance?
*Only a fool keeps doing the same thing and getting the same results - or even worse, and still keeps doing it that same way. NIGERIA, IT'S TIME TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX!!!!

These alternative solutions are 'expensive'.
Of all the renewable alternatives, solar is the most viable for our environment.
However, solar has its problems too. Cost, 'efficiency', maintenance, battery requirements etc.
Our most feasible options remain hydro, gas and coal.