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size38:
PDP is telling lies here. Where is 4000 plus MW? I live in PHC along NTA road Road Mgbouba, everybody living here can attest to the fact that for over 3 months now we have not seen a flash of light how much having a 2 hours light for over 3 months

Maybe your transformer get problem. I live in PH town, we enjoy light 6hrs everyday from 12 hrs daily.

The strategy is to release those girls to Buhari if he wins 2015 election to make him feel more relevant, but if GEJ wins, the abduction may stay longer until ransom is given. my 2 kobo sha

aljharem:
How ? What is he doing in Dubai is the question and with who's money? His father business ?

Btw I know his son directly and he was a friend of mine

Are you insinuating you can help the police in investigation

dridowu:
Mr suspect Drug baron (Kashamu) prove to us that you are innocent by travelling to USA by clearing your name.

both knows each others secrets ... obj by now should be stepping down the podium of politics.

brito:
Good luck to them, were they sleeping all this while?

my sweet, i hear you

omoagbeke:
Pinnick's first assignment should be to sack keshi

pinnick or pickin?? just asking sha

Baddestguyp:
I believe we'll still.qualify, all hope is not lost

only if keshi is sacked!

enigmaotr:
That talkative.

yea, that is why he is info minister.

plaetton: What a nonesense.
So you have to believe before god heals you?
In that case I would assume that all who are healthy are so because they believe, and conversely those who are ailing in our hospitals this very moment are ill because they don't believe?
You god must be as silly as those those that believe that he heals.

Let me take you back to the old testament, where god was soooo helpless agains leprosy, that he ordered that they be quarantined from the general population.

Ebola, as well as other diseases kill humans , but also kill god over and over again.

The fools (like you) says in his heart there is no God. Repent now or be damned 4ever.

mazaje: As the governments of West Africa struggle to contain the spread of the Ebola virus, I am wondering where all the men and women of God who claim they can heal the sick and who conduct faith healing sessions in countries across the region are.

Where are all the continent’s miracle workers now that people desperately need healing; where are the anointed men and women of God now governments urgently need to contain the spread of Ebola? Where are all the pastors and preachers who have built their religious and business empires marketing miracle cure claims to gullible, ignorant desperate folks in cities and villages across Africa over the years? Have their miracle stocks suddenly gone dry? Or don’t they have any miracle package that is compatible with Ebola? What are our faith healers doing now? Can’t they singly or jointly take the spiritual battle against Ebola to affected communities and demonstrate to the world that their God is truly a miracle God?

Where are the T B Joshuas, David Oyedepos, Enoch Adeboyes, Kumuyis of this world and other anointed men and women who claim to be in direct communication with god in matters concerning healing? Why can’t T B Joshua travel down to Sierra Leone or Liberia and cast this ‘demon’ of Ebola into the Ocean once and for all? Why can’t the Nigerian government allow Ebola patients to come to the Synagogue in Lagos so that they can receive their healing from the quaking anointed hands of Prophet T B Joshua or be delivered by the most revered Enoch Adeboye and David Oyedepo?

Where is Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams of Action Chapel in Accra? Have his prophetic and faith healing powers suddenly expired? I mean this is the time for ministration. This is the time to spread God’s anointing and use it to counter the spread of Ebola. Where are the faith healers? I ask once again. The government and people Guinea, Sierra Leone need you now, urgently. The people of the world need your help. Do not retreat. Do not make excuses now the ‘Kingdom of God’ is suffering violence due to Ebola disease. This is the time of reckoning. This is the time to hold you to account for the faith healing claims you have made over the years. Yes, this is the defining moment.

A disease that requires you to put your healing powers to test is here. Where are Africans who believe in miracles and in divine healing and who flaunt this belief as a mark of piety and godliness? Belief is not enough. Faith in miracles, like sincerity, is subject to test. This is the testing time. Will you stand up now and be counted? A disease that requires you to put your belief to test is here. Please kindly step forward? Liberia beckons on you. Sierra Leone beckons on you. Guinea awaits you. What is the need entertaining belief in miracles only to suddenly suspend it when an occasion that demands you to put such a belief to the test arises? Ebola beckons on faith healers and miracle believers. This is your chance to convince and convert skeptics.

Where are all the Christian, Muslim, Traditionalist spiritualists who claim they have powers to cure diseases? Where are African diviners who claim to know the mind of God? Is there any faith healer in the foxhole of Ebola in West Africa?

I mean where are the god men and women? What are they doing now? Ebola is here threatening and charging to destroy economies and decimate population of countries. Please come forward and put your healing powers to the test and help countries in West Africa save lives and save money.

This challenge has become necessary if Africa must move forward and if the ongoing deception and exploitation by fake(faith) healers will end. There is no evidence for faith healing at all. Africans spend fortune on faith healing schemes. This challenge has become necessary if African people and their governments must improve the health care system and be able to provide effective responses to outbreak of diseases like the Ebola. Africans need to maximize their limited resources and stop investing and wasting money in useless cure schemes. Africans need to channel their funds into promoting evidence based health care system.

But this may not happen for now due to pervasive faith healing program in the region.

For too long, many people have often declared that they were called by God and given supernatural powers to heal diseases. They set up churches and shrines. Sometimes they operate from their homes. These self-acclaimed emissaries of a miracle working God organize faith clinics and healing sessions and charge exorbitant fees. Many Africans go to these faith doctors for ‘treatment’.

Today we have are several testimonies of people who claim they received their healing from these faith clinicians- pastors, priests, bishops, Alfas, Mallams, marabouts, one local spiritualist or diviner or the other? And these testimonies are often used to support ‘non evidence based medicine’ and discourage evidence based medical thinking and programs. This trend has had negative effects on the public health care system in the region.

The negative impact is such that when there is a serious outbreak of diseases, the peddlers of supernatural cures disappear into the thin air leaving their so-called flock in a lurch without any effective faith healing intervention. Just imagine that ridiculous gesture from T B Joshua to Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. He sent them tons of holy water. Did the holy water stop the spread of Ebola? No.

So when there is an outbreak of epidemic, many people begin to panic. They are confused as to which measures to adopt to prevent the spread of the disease. Sometimes they shun evidence based measures and instructions due to the confusion that has been created in their minds by faith healers and other peddlers of paranormal cures. Today African governments are asking for help from the international community in order to fight the spread of Ebola disease. Are they asking western countries to send them their faith healers or tons of olive oil? No. Are they asking eastern countries to send them Sheikhs, Mullahs or Rabbis, sacred Arabian sand, incense and perfume to combat this deadly virus? No. African countries are appealing for evidence based medical supplies, tested drugs and competent medical personnel, not prayer, incantation or divination.
Meanwhile, after the disease is contained, our faith healers will reemerge on the scene with their faith healing practices. They will begin once again to market their holy water, olive oil, holy handkerchief, and other faith healing wares. They will begin to perform signs and wonders once again.

It will be back to the religious business as usual. While, the government goes back to dogmatic and ‘faithfull’ sleep till another major outbreak of disease.

I mean this is totally unacceptable and must stop. Meanwhile, the medical assistance which African governments are demanding from Eastern and Western countries are programs and facilities which they are capable of putting in place in their different countries if only they could give enough priority to evidence based medical thinking and research, and stop hankering after miracle and faith healing schemes which fail them when diseases like a Ebola strike.

Leo Igwe is a skeptic from Nigeria.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/29/ebola-epidemic-where-are-faith-healers-africa-leo-igwe

SINCE YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD OR IN THE POWER AND ABILITY OF GOD AND HIS WAYS, ITS NEEDLESS ANSWERING YOUR QUESTS. BUT ONE THING U HAVE TO KNOW IS THAT GOD DON'T JUST GO ABOUT HEALING EVERYMAN WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE, YOUR DOUBTS DOESN'T STOP OR REDUCE GOD FOR WHOM HE IS. IT'S NOT OF ADEBOYE, NOR OYEDEPO BUT OF CHRIST JESUS WHO DWELLS IN THEM THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Blenvado: So when are the Nigerian Army storming that dreaded Sambisa Forest and showing us pix of the terrorist cells, the Chibok girls etc since the bad guy in the movie has been eliminated? or should we expect a season iv on the series?

you too much in a HASTE. Just sit back and watch-out the turnout of events.

arresa: What's baseless about the abuse, rights violation and military brutality the average Nigerian experience everyday?

You tiny freak, do you understand the subject matter at all, before oozing out Ebola viruses?? By the way i am fully covered and protected, all your boko haram like Ebola symptoms you manifest will end up only with u. UP NAIJA MILITARY! UP GEJ! ALUTA CONTINUA DE NAIJA MILITARY, DE GEJ 2019.

berem: CAN award under the leadership of the bling-bling pastor has become a partisan and political tool affiliated to PDP.

What an insult!

shutup your oozing beak! what do you know?

cramjones: Can someone please lash Ayo Orisejiafor with a horse whip? Can someone tie him up and throw him behind the UniLag Lagoon?

Can someone please do this?

-CramJones

Why? is that how you judge?

50calibre: Another 4 years of this retar*ded president & Nigeria is fuc*ked beyond redemption

oya! APC, produce your strongman so we can weigh the two.

ISpiksDaTroof: This is a bloody lie from the pit of hell, and today I promise you this: GOODLUCK EBERE JONATHAN WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT COME FEBRUARY 15, 2015! Neither State nor Justice (Depts.) has Nigeria blacklisted from legal Arms purchases. What we have been against from jump were the illegalities involved in their procurement and transactions. To blame the United States for this scandal is to admit what we have thought all along: THIS CORRUPT NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT HAS A HAND IN THE INSURGENCY AND HAS A LOT TO ANSWER!!!

If Nigeria pushes, we will push back. Theres a lot to be revealed and I think its about time this evil group of people leading Nigeria to the abyss are put to shame once and for all.

close your mouth, you r a small boy!

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boombay: obasanjo is one of the most competent and active leader in Nigeria unlike Jonathan with his empty coconut head...

boombay, how many wraps have sniffed before typing those trash?

melojames: Thank you, Mr President for being our president for this long and unpleasant time. Wish you all the best in your next life outside the presidency, but please ensure you leave with all your cohorts and accomplices in 2015.

Yours sincerely,
Concerned Citizen.

So what do you mean? Who better passam? Atiku? Buhari? Or your LGA chairman? Abegi, GEJ keep swimming till 2019

egift: The more details details you find out Jonathan has, the more you agree he deserves all the blame for this failure:
- There is no way he was not informed of the abduction few hours after it happened, yet he was in Kano dancing Skelewu with a female party agent.
- He has not visited the community months after the abduction.
- He sent out his attack dogs to convince the world it was a scam (even tarnishing our national reputation the more before the world).
- He summoned the victims to visit him instead of visiting them. He even tried to bribe them too.
- His wife made caricature of the plights of the Chibok victims with a crocodile tears on National TV.
- He turned deaf ears and played dumb to all the calls and campaigns to do something meaning and be a leader for once.
- He had people negotiate on his behave and never had the gut to finish it, pull out at the dieing minute. Even lying about it.
- Overseeing the most corrupt administration in history (where Police Pension and Security Budget are stolen with anyone getting punished.
- All the folks accused of founding, masterminding and funding terror, all have very close ties with Jonathan's administration.
- And so much more...

With the current security situation in Nigeria, Jonathan has failed morally, patriotically, politically, economically, as a father of the nation, as a leader, technically, strategically, responsively and mentally. Except when it comes to corruption (inflating security budget and demanding a Billion Dollar Loan).

Shut up! you coconut brain

two trailer loads of over 30 tanks around 9 pm along the Abuja-Lokoja Expressway.

Haba! how can just two trailers carry over 30 armoured tanks? How true is this? Or is't fuel tanks?

Where is Oba of Benin palace?

busuyem: What about university students too? Are they ebola-proof?

no! they are adult-proof

priscaoge: To recruit more what? Personnel Or Criminals

can't you see you are doomed?

MizMyColi: I'm sorry but I stopped believing any news from vanguard

cista, i agree wir'u. vanguard is a sham!

RUBBISH!

I dont subscribe to it. If an issue or argument arises, the woman will say "na me marry you put for this house"
I call the shot

Buhari, nothin' for you, this is 21st century!

kultimate009: Super Story.... I weep for this country....

every time you weep, never encourage progress, infact i weep for you.

Nctrice: after saying all of this did you ask yourself why would the so called "almajaris" go to Aso rock instead of a "Simbasa forest" ?

pls i like to know

yenegoa still grossly underdeveloped inspite of the huge monthly subvention from the federal pulse, is this all it got to show?

Dragonking:

this man again?