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pepilo:
So wetin Aunty Kemi talk na true

Congrats Daddy Imade

Stop lying. The lunatic said they had a boy last week

Lords Jesus is God the Son.

Acts 7:55–56; Romans 8:34; Ephesians 1:20; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 10:12; Hebrews 12:2; 1 Peter 3:22; Revelation 3:21; Matthew 22:44; Acts 2:33

55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw othe glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
Put On the New Self
3 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek cthe things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Then what is money for

No be today o. See below

washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post
Business

Nigerian scammers are stealing BILLIONS of dollars

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
June 12, 2018 at 2:56 PM

The FBI said June 11 it made 74 arrests in connection with 419 Nigerian email scams. The Post's Cleve R. Wootson Jr. explains how these scams have managed to be so successful. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)

Savvy people already know it’s a bad idea to trust an email from a Nigerian prince hoping to use their bank account to unload a dead relative’s vast wealth.

And they’re just as suspicious of the sudden Internet-based love interest with questionable grammar who needs a few thousand untraceable dollars to clear up a passport issue in time for a magical first date.

But in a sophisticated and terrifying evolution of the Nigerian 419 scam, web-savvy crime syndicates are figuring out ways to bilk U.S. citizens of billions.

On Monday, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 people across the world — including 29 people in Nigeria and 41 in the United States — who authorities say were part of complex international networks that combed filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission, spoofed CEO emails and successfully targeted even hardened employees whose jobs are to safeguard their companies from financial mismanagement.

The recent scams have the same DNA as the poorly worded emails that have been showing up in people’s inboxes since the 1990s. Instead of playing on hopes of finding love or lust for sudden wealth, they play on fears about missing a vital company payment or upsetting a boss’s boss.

“[Scammers] are doing their research … going onto company websites and looking for the right people,” FBI Assistant Director Scott Smith, who helped lead the investigation, told the Wall Street Journal. “They may even go as far as pulling annual reports and finding what companies they do business with and [impersonating] those accounts.”

Adeyemi Odufuye and his team, for example, sifted SEC records, company websites and other business documents, looking for the names and email addresses of chief executives, chief financial officers and controllers, court documents say.

Odufuye, who had a half dozen nicknames, including “Jefe,” the Spanish word for “chief” or “boss,” led a crew responsible for stealing $2.6 million, including $440,000 from one business in Connecticut, according to the Justice Department.

The schemes used a variety of tactics to gain people’s trust and steal their money, federal authorities say. They registered website domain names that were hard to distinguish from the companies they were targeting — impersonations meant to give emails an air of authenticity. Some of those emails arrived with malware attachments that would snap images of a victim’s desktop or transmit key log information — a hacker trick for nabbing someone’s password.

They even employed money mules whose sole purpose was to move the ill-gotten gains from account to account, authorities say, disguising the electronic paper trail from investigators.

Odufuye was extradited from Britain on Jan. 3. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.

The arrests highlighted just how many people are falling for the latest iterations of the Nigerian hustle, as well as the staggering losses American businesses are accruing. According to FBI figures obtained by the Journal, victims of such scams reported $275 million in losses in 2015. By 2017, reported losses had more than doubled, to $675 million. And in the first quarter of this year, more than 4,000 victims reported $685 million in losses. The bureau estimates American businesses have lost more than $3.7 billion as a result of the schemes.

Since January 2015, the FBI estimated last year, there has been a 1,300 percent increase in identified exposed losses from similar scams. On Monday, the FBI issued a public service announcement about the scams.

Last year, FBI Special Agent Martin Licciardo, an organized crime investigator, said such crimes are “a serious threat on a global scale. The ability of these criminal groups to compromise legitimate business email accounts is staggering. … They are experts at deception.”

Scammers target businesses of all sizes, sometimes spending months studying a company’s organizational chart, the FBI said. They target people who frequently transfer large amounts of money and sensitive records in the course of business. They impersonate executives, human relations staff, law firms and trusted vendors. They usually insist that whatever bogus issue they’ve raised be cleared up as soon as possible, often by an immediate wire transfer. Discretion is often advised.

Tomide007:
Read what she wrote....

I’ve read enough of her nonsense to know not to waste my time:
- Linda was not pregnant, she’d never deliver a baby
-She faked the hospital photos
- Another woman had the baby
- Davido’d get arrested if he steps foot in US
- Davido and Chioma split up
- You can add your own

This really deserves front page instead of all these fake stories

Lol

Lunatic Hanty Kemi, go deal with your mental illness. Stop trolling celebrities

Tepamose:
Good day Nigerians, a friend of mine applied for a Portugal visa and was denied after the 8 working days. This is the second time she's been denied and now she wants to apply for Germany visa after the third day he was denied Portugal. The question now is that if she apply for the Germany visa via invitation letter from her aunt that lives in abroad(Germany) will he be given the visa? bearing in mind that she was just denied and it's not even up to a week.

your quick response will be highly appreciated.

Because Germany is a totaly different country. It is like asking how someone denied entry into Nigeria is Trying to enter Ghana

It has been 40 days already!! But it is unlawful to detain a man that long without charging him

madenigga:
Is neymar a whiteman or a black man

Lol. Depends on where u r. In 9ja he is probably “white”. In US he is OBVIOUSLY a black man

Elton01:
is it your bleeping

I only asked a question. Please tell us what is bleeping

Elton01:
Bleeping sure die

What is bleeping? Why not just type fucking

To me it makes a man look LAZY!!!!

(Beats me how a blogger can’t write simple correct English!)

Not totally nationalise but indigenise - force them to sell 60% share to Nigerians.

New York Times
Nigeria's'Indigenization’ Policy
By John Darnton
Oct. 30, 1976

LAGOS, Nigeria, Oct. 29—In an effort to wrest control of the economy from foreign hands, Nigeria has embarked upon a stepped‐up policy of forcing foreign‐owned companies to sell into Nigerian ownership...

Throughout much of black Africa, there is a trend toward “Africanizing” the management or ownership of key industries, but nowhere is it as pronounced as in Nigeria, an economic giant whose gross national product is equal to all the rest of black Africa combined....

Chase Manhattan sold 60 percent of its equity shares at 1.24 naira, or almost $2 a share. Under the arrangement the Federal Military Government will control three of the five seats on its board, including the chairmanship.

Heart-rending. Happens a lot. Just like that, a couple’s life has a dark shadow for ever. RIP

Grunting durring sports.

Grunting During Sports, Workouts Boosts Performance - Men's Health
Mar 8, 2018 · But when it comes to harnessing power and focus during physical activity, we have news for you: Grunting actually works. According to a two-part study published in PLOS One last month, grunting gives athletes a competitive advantage by allowing them to exert more physical force during activity.

shadeyinka:
The question is , do witches have that kind of power?
No!

If they can’t even affect a man putting up $1m against them what sort of witches are they? May be the more logical answer is that what we mean by “witches” simply do not exist. Today America and Europe have largely discounted witches, only Africa. See below.

A Brief History of Witch Hunts

In 16th- and 17th-century Europe, tens of thousands of women were rounded up and slaughtered for being witches in some of society’s earliest witch hunts. Older women, outcasts, and healers were particularly vulnerable

In America the Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil's magic—and 20 were executed. Alse Young, a Connecticut resident, is the first colonist executed for alleged witchcraft.
“If any man or woman be a witch, that is, hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit, they shall be put to death.” For Puritans, “witches explain the presence of not only illness, death, and personal misfortune but also behavior antithetical to the culture’s moral universe.” 
Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted.

shadeyinka:
Witches do exist but it's completely different from the way we think of them.
They have no power to just point fingers at their enemies and the enemy would just die of heart attack: no way.

The best they can do is to set a curse (a demon) to follow an individual with the intent of using natural events to cause havoc in the life of such person. Success or failure depend on whether the spirits with the other person is stronger or weaker. Witches seem not to even be able to better their own lives through their witchcraft.

In other words, witches are not as powerful as people assume them to be. Maybe they are good at giving some people nightmares.

The yorubas say: if you don't have family demons who want to kill you, the strange demons cannot harm you.

But if someone put up $1m to say I do not exist I will at least do something to teach him a lesson so that no one else will dare say such, not allow him to live happily into his 90’s

Sniper101:
Quite an epistle you scribbled there, Mr.
But yet, it made no sense to me. None at all.

Because at the end, the 1, 2 & 3 assertions you scribbled there still did/does nothing to prove that witches didn't/don't exist.

That’s the whole point. It is almost impossible to definitely PROVE anything in this our reality. Even Decartes’ “I think, therefore I am” as a way of proving that he existed has been shown to be faulty. Now, if it is so difficult to prove that you yourself exists how much more something outside yourself. That’s why I said “I LEAN TOWARDS the position that...”

Sniper101:
Chai...
Ludicrous comments everywhere

some moroñs on this platform, on a bid for it to just be say dem too follow others drop comments, they virtually end up saying balderdash

HOW can a full blooded African not believe that witches and wizards do exist

Even most Britons & Americans do believe that juju, otherwise known as "voodoo" is real.

Use Google, check the history & origin of that movie titled "The Nun" ...you'll be convinced that since time immemorial, spirits, witches & wizards have been in play. Sometimes, in plain sight.

Plus, the Bible itself confirmed the existence of witches. Exodus 22:18





And about the actual question here...

I'll say, NO!
Every "adult" who's a witch or a wizard is 'always' self aware of the fact. Anything else, is denial.

With that said, I'll conclude by saying that "in most cases, it's usually a child who is seldom aware that she or he is a witch or a wizard.

I don’t know how you can be so sure of things in this universe which we have no way of knowing if it even physically exists.

I don’t know if witches exist. ANYTHING is possible in this our universe.

BUT there are things I do know:

1) Europe and America burnt CONFESSED witches 100’s years ago, yet they now acknowledge they burnt innocent people

2) Variuos people, including Hitler, throughout history were extremely wicked and destructive to humanity, sometimes killing millions, non of them were ever killed by witches. Also people like Rawlings, Babangida, etc executed many people yet are alive today, witches haven’t killed them

3) James Randi, while in his 40’s put up $1m that witches and such do not exist. He is now in his 90’s and they haven’t killed him or prevented him from having a full, fulfilled life.

From the foregoing I’d lean towards the position that witches, AS WE UNDERSTAND THEM, very likely DO NOT exist

DELETE MONIKERS BEFORE QUOTING
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Doesn’t mean u didn’t steal money. We all know u did

stonegarden:
That woman has a problem. Always filled with so much bad energy and negativity about everything and everyone. Never heard her having anything good to say about anyone

I tell ya. You can’t have so much negativity and stay sane. That’s the root cause of her MADNESS

Olamsoh:
Please if you are a child and knows nothing,don’t doubt this cuz some of us have been in a party where it’s raining on the other side while across the street it’s not raining

Level is real AF

Is it possible to be raining on one side of the street but not the other?

I used to live in a small town. It was not unusual for it to rain on one side of the railroad track and not the other. Happened quite a few times in the years I lived there....Show more
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StarShine
10 years ago
Yup. Weather's funny like that, I've seen it happen. Half the yard was bright and sunny, the other side was raining (but still sunny)....Show more
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Anonymous
10 years ago
i lived in toronto on younge st. & egglington it was raining on the east side but not the west side of the street

EternalBeing:
What we all need to know is that our CREATOR originally wants us to live forever, and HE has placed the choice before us. HE gave us this short lives to see how we individually use it. Those that use it to do good, HE shall reward us with the immortality that HE originally plan for us. But devil is fighting this tooth and nail to prevent us from earning this reward. Always remember that this short life is a test of whether you deserve to be allowed to live forever or not.
https://www.nairaland.com/5406098/secret-truth-witchcraft-everyone-should#82048747

I am asking this because I really want to know:
Man is an animal, some humans very advanced, others almost as primitive as apes. Are those primitive people’s lives also tests? How about lower animals, some quite intelligent, are their lives also tests?

quirus:
Witchcraft, I mean the real one, has nothing to do with the Randi's theoretical psychic or paranormal concept, it is an open thing and everywhere unless you want to be deceived. I have enough confessions in my own extended family from living witches to prove this: I don't need any Randi to tell me that there are witches and wizards when I have witnessed the live shows of the testimonies of their evil works. Unless you are not an African you too know the truth.

My own position is that anything is possible in this our universe. Demonstrating things on demand is a different matter all together.
As for confessions, recall that Europe and America burnt confessed witches 100’s years ago, yet they now acknowledge they burnt innocent people

I simply copied and pasted your question on Google. Here’s what came up:

ADOPTION IN NIGERIA
Nigeria is not party to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention). Intercountry adoptions of children from non-Hague countries are processed in accordance with 8 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 204.3 as it relates to orphans as defined under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Section 101(b)(1)(F).

Individuals who are not Nigerian citizens are not legally allowed to adopt in Nigeria. When a married couple is adopting, both must be Nigerian citizens. Only U.S. citizens who also have Nigerian citizenship are allowed to adopt children in Nigeria. Nigerian adoption laws are complex and vary from state to state. At the national level, adoptions are regulated by the Nigerian Child Rights Law or the Adoption Act of 1965. Depending on where the adoption takes place, the specific law and regulations governing the adoption may differ.

In general, prospective adoptive parents who intend to adopt a specific child must first obtain temporary custody of the child. Prospective adoptive parents are advised to obtain information on adopting in individual states through the state social welfare office. Please note that the only legal way to do an adoption in Nigeria is to work with the respective state social welfare office (usually named the State Ministry of Women’s or Family Affairs). Prospective adoptive parents should not attempt to process their adoption through local officials who may attempt to circumvent the legal process. Adoption decrees must state that they are full and final in order for an immigrant visa to be issued to the child. The U.S. Consulate General in Lagos (U.S. Consulate) only issues IR3 classification immigrant visas. Oftentimes, adoption decrees from Nigerian courts put stipulations on the adoption, such as not allowing the child to travel beyond the jurisdiction of the court or requiring periodic visits to the child by the social welfare office of the respective Nigerian state. These stipulations may prevent the consular officer from issuing an immigrant visa or cause a delay in the processing of the immigrant visa.

Prospective adoptive parents must be available to be questioned in court by the magistrate considering the adoption. Proxy adoptions are not valid in Nigeria

Document and identity fraud related to adoptions is a serious concern in Nigeria. The U.S. Consulate requires that most adoptions be investigated in person in the state where the adoption took place to verify the authenticity of the information provided in the adoption decrees and I-600 petitions. For security reasons, U.S. government personnel are frequently restricted from traveling to certain parts of the country. As a result, investigations and the in-country visa application and approval process can cause adoption processing in Lagos to take six to 12 months to complete, after the initial approval of the I-600 by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

U.S. IMMIGRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTIONS

To bring an adopted child to the United States from Nigeria, you must meet eligibility and suitability requirements. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) determines who can adopt under U.S. immigration law.

Additionally, a child must meet the definition of orphan under U.S. immigration law in order to be eligible to immigrate to the United States on an IR-3 or IR-4 immigrant visa.
HB

WHO CAN ADOPT

In addition to U.S. immigration requirements, you must also meet the following requirements in order to adopt a child from Nigeria:

Residency: Nigerian law requires that a parent-child relationship be established before the court decision can be considered final. Each state determines the length of time it takes to establish the parent-child relationship, which can range from a few months to two years.
Age of Adopting Parents: In Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo and Rivers, prospective adoptive parents must be at least 25 years of age and 21 years older than the child. For married couples, at least one parent must meet the age requirements.
Marriage: Both single individuals and married couples may adopt. Note that a single person will not be allowed to adopt a child of the opposite sex except in extraordinary circumstances. In most states, married couples must adopt jointly. If married, both members of the couple must be Nigerian citizens. In the case of single-parent adoption, only the adopter’s name should be listed on the Nigerian birth certificate and the other parent’s name should be left blank. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals or married same-sex couples in the United States who are known by the Nigerian court to be LGBT may not be able to adopt children from Nigeria. It is unclear whether the Government of Nigeria and Nigerian law permit such adoptions at present; if it passes, a proposed bill will explicitly prohibit adoptions by LGBT parents in Nigeria.
Income: Nigeria does not have any income requirements for intercountry adoptions.
Nigerian Citizens: Nigerian law states that non-Nigerians may not adopt in Nigeria. While the law is sometimes inconsistently applied, the U.S. Consulate strongly advises that non-Nigerian citizens are not eligible to adopt children from Nigeria.

WHO CAN BE ADOPTED

In addition to U.S. immigration requirements, Nigeria has specific requirements that a child must meet in order to be eligible for adoption:

Relinquishment: Adoptions of children who are allegedly relinquished by their parent, who is still living, are subject to investigation as the U.S. Consulate has found that parents in Nigeria may relinquish their children to relatives living in the United States strictly in order to afford the children the ability to immigrate to the United States.
Abandonment: Abandonment of a child in Nigeria is often poorly documented and may require a full investigation by the U.S. Consulate to confirm the abandonment.
Age of Adoptive Child: According to Nigerian law, a child must be below the age of 16 (according to the Adoption Act of 1965) or 17 (according to the Child Rights Law) in order to be adopted. The specific law governing the adoption will depend on the jurisdiction in which the adoption takes place. Important note: U.S. law requires a child to be under the age of 16 at the time the petition is filed to qualify for a U.S. immigrant visa, unless the child is the natural sibling of another child who was adopted by the same parents while under the age of 18.
Sibling Adoptions: There are no specific guidelines regarding adopting siblings in Nigeria.
Special Needs or Medical Conditions: Adoption decrees issued in Nigeria will generally specify any special needs or address the general health of the child to be adopted. The U.S. home study should match any specifications of special needs that are observed by the Nigerian court.
Waiting Period or Foster Care: Prospective adoptive parents must have physical and temporary legal custody of the adoptive child for at least three consecutive months immediately prior to petitioning the court for an adoption decree. An applicant cannot have the child reside with another family member in lieu of living with the applicant, even if a Power of Attorney is in effect. The U.S. Consulate has seen waivers issued to parents who claimed to the court that meeting this requirement was a burden.

Caution: Prospective adoptive parents should be aware that not all children in orphanages or children’s homes are eligible for adoption. In many countries, birth parents place their child(ren) temporarily in an orphanage or children’s home due to financial or other hardship, intending that the child return home when it becomes possible. In such cases, the birth parent(s) have not relinquished their parental rights or consented to their child(ren)’s adoption. In Nigeria, many orphanages or organizations claiming that they arrange adoptions are for-profit enterprises which operate without licensing or oversight. The U.S. Consulate advises all prospective adoptive parents to get clear information about any orphanage or adoption agency in Nigeria before entering into an adoption process with the organization.

kingjomezy:
I have this strong feeling especially connected to money,if I am dead broke and I have this feeling that money will come I will spend my last Kobo and boom money will just come out of nowhere not just once not twice but I fucking like it .Someone said I am an ogbanje lol

if I don't have this feeling omo na suffer ooh ..lol

I am 100% CERTAIN that there have been instances when u did not have that feeling and still got money and vise versa but you subconsciously disregard those because you are out to identify a pattern. Humans are always trying to see a pattern and force patterns where non truly exists.

quirus:
Witches and wizards have existed from time immemorial. It is the gift of the devil to his followers to know the past and the future, to astral travel and to do evil. You might have it intentionally or unintentionally, but if you have it you will know because you will inducted in a coven, unless you are still too young in age to realise this.

Without resorting to insulting me or giving rumored anecdotes, simply honestly answer my question to the best of your ability:

How do u know all this and why hasn’t any of them been able to demonstrate it to this guy below and win the $1 million he’s had in escrow since the 60’s, or at least kill him to teach him a lesson?
(daddymummy, perryy, mamatwiny, kingjomezy, larryking540, flier, emily22, thefacelessman, truefaith, alexola20, noblefirstlady, healthserve, sylve11, engrchykae, also try to give an honest answer to the best of your ability)

JAMES RANDI

James "The Amazing" Randi (born 1928) is a former magician and a scientific skeptic perhaps best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. He is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, originally known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

The million-dollar challenge is a prize offered by the James Randi foundation to anyone "who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event."
It has yet to be won though there have been a vast number of attempts.

Randi started the James Randi Educational Foundation to monitor applications for the $1 million prize, and to serve as an organizing body to help promote skepticism and provide educational resources on claims of the paranormal.
The foundation was headed by James Randi for many years before he retired from its presidency.
In 1987 he exposed the Peter Popoff ministry for faking their faith healing claims. The resulting scandal drove Popoff into bankruptcy.
When challenged in 2011 Sally Morgan did not even attempt the challenge.
Sylvia Browne is the only widely known psychic who has offered to take up the challenge. Sylvia was a popular television psychic who claimed that she could communicate with the dead. On March 6, 2001, she agreed to take up the challenge.
To her dying day she did not take the challenge. Sylvia's first excuse was because she did not know how to contact Randi. That is comical: a professional psychic who speaks to dead people cannot figure out how to reach Randi. Her following excuse was that she did not want to take the challenge because Randi is a godless individual—all the more reason she should take the challenge. If the supernatural could be proven and demonstrated, and the $1,000,000 were claimed, it would be a tremendous blow to Randi and the skeptical community, and a tremendous boost to her career as a psychic. Sylvia Browne was special because she was the only professional psychic to accept Randi's challenge, though she later backed off.

“I regard Randi as a national treasure, and perhaps one of the remaining antidotes that may prevent the rotting of the American mind.”
—Arthur C. Clarke

daddymummy:
I have seen instances when someone is being accused of being a witch, the person will sincerely deny being a witch.

But subsequent happenings will show he or she is the cause of some misfortunes although he or she may not seem to be aware.

See how confused and tangled up u have gotten yourself. There is enough in the physical world to occupy you, also all advances man has made has come from tinkering with the physical world. Stop being preoccupied with things you can’t prove and probably was never meant to understand

IloveToMess:
All im saying is that igbo men have never considered yoruba women for marriage or relationship. Yoruba women are seen as ugly and dirty thats why. What you should be saying is that igbo men would attack yoruba men for leaving their women and coming for ours, though igbo men are fine too and sought after by many african women.

You don’t understand. It is mostly the WOMEN’S PREFERENCE that triggers it. If Ibo girls start preferring Yoruba guys, you’d see Ibo guys’ attitude to Yorubas change. It was women’s preference that turned king Saul against David. So it is deeply ingrained. And once again stop generalizing. Go and tell that Psquare guy that his wife is ugly and dirty