 Nairaland General › Re: Just 34 Lions Are Left In Nigeria As West African Lion Population Declines by channel190(op): 9:02am On Jan 11, 2013 |
19naia: wow i didnt even know nigeria still had wild lions other than whats maintained in national parks/animal refuge...i always thought it was worse than this article has said...i remember seeing picture of hippo on nairaland that entered someones house during last years major flooding..i always thought hippos were also not there any more....Its good to see wild life. Even with years living in bush areas of nigeria,i never heard of lions,hippos or the usual big animals of africa being there...maybe thats because they are more north area like in what used to be the large and rural Gongola state... |
| Nairaland General › Re: Just 34 Lions Are Left In Nigeria As West African Lion Population Declines by channel190(op): 9:02am On Jan 11, 2013 |
*Kails*:
smh.
There should to be VERY STIFF and non-negotiable penalties for anyone caught poaching, unjustifiably killing, or napping .lions.
The governments also need to quarantine the areas that the lions inhabit making the areas "no-go zones" for people for a while. This method, if planned and executed well, will enable the lions to procreate and increase in numbers - maybe not as much as they were before but it will help.  nigeria today don't know the value of what they have until they loose it...things really have to be put in place or else... |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 8:44am On Jan 11, 2013 |
obalola7: Abram took Hagar Sarai's maid for wife
Genesis 16
Introduction- In our last lesson we learned about how God made covenant with Abram, God shows Abram what his descendants will suffer and assured him that his descendants will inherit the lands. In todays lesson we will be learning about how Abram took Hagar Sarai's maid for wife, the angel of God appear to Hagar and the promise for Hagar's son.
Today's Study
When Sarai realized that she was barren, she called Abram to take her maid an Egyptian called Hagar for a wife and when Hagar was pregnant she disrespect Sarai; but sarai understands that she cause the disrespect by asking Abram to sleep with her maid; she said, God will judge between their two.(Genesis 16:1-5)
But Abram told Sarai to do whatever she wants just as she would do when she was her maid. Then Sarai dealt with her harshly and Hagar ran away to the wilderness where an angel met Hagar asking her where she was going and she explained that she had ran away from sarai. And the Angel instruct her to return to Sarai and to submit herself to her. Then the angel told her descendant will be multiplied to become a great multitude. (Genesis 16:6-10)
The Angel of the lord told her that she will have a male child and she should name him Ishmael, because the lord heard her suffering. The child will be wild man, he will be against everyone and everyone will be against him and he will live in the presence of his brothers. Then she was afraid and said God has seen her. She called the place Beerlahairoi between Kadesh and Bered and she gave birth to Ishmael when Abram was 86 years old. Genesis 16:11-16)
Reflection
Impatient can cause us pain, havoc and disaster. There is no doubt there are very few women on earth like Sarai who can be so passionate in love with their husbands and still allow their husbands to marry another woman because they are barren. I guess to some extent Sarai trusted her husband and knew what God deposited in her husband. The impatient of Sarai not only cause a problem for her, but could have broken their home. However, nothing happens without God's being in the plan."12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"(Romans 12:12)
Very few men will do like Abram who for the love he has for his wife would not allow his house to be broken, but command that Sarai should do what pleases her with her disrespectful maid, despite being pregnant for him. Christian husbands should learn to respect their wives and love them them more than they love their children. When you love your wife more, you will have a happy home and you will see the love reflected on your children. "25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"(Ephesians 5:25)
God is in every plan. He is never in place of confusion and he is the master of orderliness. When the angel met Hagar at the fountain in the wilderness, she instructed her to go back and submit herself to Sarai. Humility is needed for anybody carrying great thing. Children of God are to humble themselves before their masters so that God can fulfill and bring to pass what he has deposited in them. "10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." (James 4:10)
May God help us to be patient and humble. |
| Nairaland General › Re: Just 34 Lions Are Left In Nigeria As West African Lion Population Declines by channel190(op): 8:42am On Jan 11, 2013 |
*Kails*:
smh.
There should to be VERY STIFF and non-negotiable penalties for anyone caught poaching, unjustifiably killing, or napping lions.
The governments also need to quarantine the areas that the lions inhabit making the areas "no-go zones" for people for a while. This method, if planned and executed well, will enable the lions to procreate and increase in numbers - maybe not as much as they were before but it will help. nigeria today don't know the value of what they have until they loose it...things really have to be put in place or else... |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 8:40am On Jan 11, 2013 |
obalola7: Abram took Hagar Sarai's maid for wife
Genesis 16
Introduction- In our last lesson we learned about how God made covenant with Abram, God shows Abram what his descendants will suffer and assured him that his descendants will inherit the lands. In todays lesson we will be learning about how Abram took Hagar Sarai's maid for wife, the angel of God appear to Hagar and the promise for Hagar's son.
Today's Study
When Sarai realized that she was barren, she called Abram to take her maid an Egyptian called Hagar for a wife and when Hagar was pregnant she disrespect Sarai; but sarai understands that she cause the disrespect by asking Abram to sleep with her maid; she said, God will judge between their two.(Genesis 16:1-5)
But Abram told Sarai to do whatever she wants just as she would do when she was her maid. Then Sarai dealt with her harshly and Hagar ran away to the wilderness where an angel met Hagar asking her where she was going and she explained that she had ran away from sarai. And the Angel instruct her to return to Sarai and to submit herself to her. Then the angel told her descendant will be multiplied to become a great multitude. (Genesis 16:6-10)
The Angel of the lord told her that she will have a male child and she should name him Ishmael, because the lord heard her suffering. The child will be wild man, he will be against everyone and everyone will be against him and he will live in the presence of his brothers. Then she was afraid and said God has seen her. She called the place Beerlahairoi between Kadesh and Bered and she gave birth to Ishmael when Abram was 86 years old. Genesis 16:11-16)
Reflection
Impatient can cause us pain, havoc and disaster. There is no doubt there are very few women on earth like Sarai who can be so passionate in love with their husbands and still allow their husbands to marry another woman because they are barren. I guess to some extent Sarai trusted her husband and knew what God deposited in her husband. The impatient of Sarai not only cause a problem for her, but could have broken their home. However, nothing happens without God's being in the plan."12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"(Romans 12:12)
Very few men will do like Abram who for the love he has for his wife would not allow his house to be broken, but command that Sarai should do what pleases her with her disrespectful maid, despite being pregnant for him. Christian husbands should learn to respect their wives and love them them more than they love their children. When you love your wife more, you will have a happy home and you will see the love reflected on your children. "25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"(Ephesians 5:25)
God is in every plan. He is never in place of confusion and he is the master of orderliness. When the angel met Hagar at the fountain in the wilderness, she instructed her to go back and submit herself to Sarai. Humility is needed for anybody carrying great thing. Children of God are to humble themselves before their masters so that God can fulfill and bring to pass what he has deposited in them. "10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." (James 4:10)
May God help us to be patient and humble. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 7:51am On Jan 11, 2013 |
obalola7: God's covenant for Abram
Genesis 15
Introduction- In our last lesson we learned about how Abram paid his tithes to Melchizedek, Lot taken captive, and how Abram rescued Lot. In today's lesson we will be learning about how God made covenant with Abram, God shows Abram what his descendants will suffer and assured him that his descendants will inherit the land.
Today's Study
God appear to Abram in a dream and instructed him to be bold and that he will be his shield and exceeding great reward. When Abram heard this, he told God he has no child, but Eliezer a steward from Damascus. Then God assured him that he will have his own biological son; to assure him, God took him outside and told him to look to the sky; as uncountable the stars are so shall his children be. (Genesis 15:1-5)
Abram believed God and it was countered unto him for righteousness. Then God told him he was the Lord that brought him out of the land or Ur of Chaldees to give him this land for his inheritance. Then Abram asked God to proof how he was going to inherit the land, then God ask him to bring she goat, ram, turtledove, young pigeon and young cow all of 3 years old. Then he divided them all in the center except the birds and laid them one after the other.(Genesis 15:6-10)
When the fowls of the air came down to eat the remains of the sacrifice, Abram drove them away. Then at evening, Abram unconsciously slept off deeply and God told Abram the prophecy of what will happen to his descendants. He assured him that his descendants will be a stranger in a strange land and they shall be tortured for 400 years. However, the nations that they will serve and torture them he will judge and he will make them to come out with great wealth, but Abram shall die in peace and in good age.(Genesis 15:11-15)
But after the fourth generation, they shall come out again, because the sin of the Amorites, then it became dark and the smoke went straight to the sky. That same night, God made a covenant with Abraham that he has given his descendants the land from the river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaims, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Genesis 15:16-21)
Reflection
Our God still speak to men by dreams. He still fills man with his spirit to see vision of things to come and still controls the atmosphere of man. When we are right with God, God will show or talk to us about his plan for the future. Abram took an opportunity to tell God about his worries when God came visiting him in his dream. When we are right with God, God will assure us to be confident and that he is with us, just like he assured Abram. I don't know what you are going through right now, but i want to tell you don't be afraid, God is your shield and great reward. Take this time to ask God concerning your worries and i am sure he will make a covenant with you today"28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions"(Joel 2:28)
Its common for us to doubt God when God promise us or show us some vision concerning ourselves. First we would normally considered our current circumstances, just like Abram considered being 75 years might affect God's promise of a child, or some of us that God said, i will build you a house, find you a partner, make you great and we will start analyzing it: i have no job, no money, no uncle that can give me money, i don't even have money to eat or attract a good partner. I can assure you, God does better analysis than you, he has the best strategy to bring it to pass. Do like Abram, ask God to show you proof and be willing to make sacrifices of praise, thanksgiving, prayer and give to the poor. "19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"(Numbers 23:19)
The bible made us to understand that Abram sent off the birds that came to eat the remains of his sacrifice.(Genesis 15:11) This can be synonymous to what happens in our own life. When God promise us, he expect us to wait. Sometimes when we are waiting patiently and have done all that is required to receive the blessing, we allow the devil to steal the moment, by giving to anger, fight, hatred and all forms of sin. As children of God, we should not be easily distracted by any form of sin. In another word, you are told to fast and pray for 3 days and when it got to the 2 and half day, you decided to do some unholy things, this can steal the moment for the promise. "7 Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me."(Micah 7:7)
When you wait patiently, God will show up and give you the strategy needed to achieve what he promised. He will inform you before hand what to expect and what his plan will be, just as he told Abram, 400 years his descendants will be enslaved, but they will triumph with great wealth. May the Almighty God help us to triumph with great wealth today. "8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."(Psalm 32:8 )
Is it land, car, child, house, healing, job, money, education, admission, breakthrough or anything God has promised you; don't loose hope, trust God and it will be counted to you as righteousness.
My prayer for you is that God will make a covenant with you today that will be fulfilled in your life time. we pray for endurance to fore see Gods plan for our life |
| Nairaland General › Re: Just 34 Lions Are Left In Nigeria As West African Lion Population Declines by channel190(op): 10:20am On Jan 10, 2013 |
ohisola: Eehhya!!! now we know we even have lions in nigeria and they are finishing. Lol |
| Nairaland General › Just 34 Lions Are Left In Nigeria As West African Lion Population Declines by channel190(op): 9:46am On Jan 10, 2013 |
The West African lion is on the verge of extinction, according to experts after a marked decline in recent years.
It is estimated there are just 645 genetically distinct wild lions left in western and central Africa, with as few as 34 remaining in the whole of Nigeria.
Now experts from conservation group LionAid say they are ‘in real danger of extinction’.
According to the group, there are no lions left in 25 African countries and populations are barely surviving in ten.
Clusters of lions remain in Burkina Faso, Niger, the Central African Republic, Cameroon and Chad but are already extinct in countries such as Ghana, The Ivory Coast and Togo.
Thirty years ago there were 200,000 lions roaming wild across the continent – but now there are only between 15,000 and 32,000 left.
West African lions have been largely forgotten due to political apathy to conservation.
Dr Pieter Kat, trustee of LionAid, told The Guardian: ‘There has been a catastrophic decline in the populations of lions in Africa, and particularly west Africa.
‘These lions have been neglected for a very long time and do not have adequate protection programs.’
He said the west of the continent is often ignored in favour of eastern Africa, leading to a decline in species.
The lion is threatened by a range of factors, including loss of habitat, loss of natural prey due to poaching, ‘unsustainable levels of trophy hunting’ and human conflict.
A new threat is also on the rise as lion bones are being used to supply the demands of Asian traditional medicine as tiger bones become scarcer.
In Nigeria a government wildlife official told The Guardian that the number of lions in the country had dropped from 44 in 2009 to a meagre 34.
Yohanna Saidu from Nigeria’s interior ministry told the newspaper they are trying to protect the lions but admitted to being ‘very concerned’.
Dr Kat said it would now be impossible to build up a population of lions in Nigeria and therefore the species should be classed as extinct there as well.
The picture is similar in other countries. In Senegal, the LionAid said there are just 40 lions left.
The charity said there are only five ‘viable’ populations – those of 1,000 or more – lions left on the continent.
Three of those are found in Tanzania and Kenya, with the remaining populations surviving in South Africa and Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Recent studies on African lion populations’ show that about three-quarters of Africa’s savannah has disappeared over the past 50 years.
Conservationists say it is not possible to individually count every lion in the continent so estimates on remaining population numbers vary.
However experts do agree the plight of the African lion is ‘very serious’ and want the animal to be included on the convention on international trade in endangered species list.
Inclusion would mean tight protection on hunting and trade, especially important as more than 5,600 wild African lions were hunted and exported as trophies between 1999 and 2008.
However, conservationists say they face strong opposition from the pro-hunting lobby.
Dr Kat said: ‘We are currently paying lip service to the conservation needs of a species so greatly important to our cultures, history, and indeed the health of wildlife biodiversity in Africa.
‘Lions are not only an iconic species important to very many people all over the world, but they are also a vital component of African ecosystems.’
Culled from Dailymail.co.uk |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 1:39am On Jan 10, 2013 |
obalola7: So shall it be. It appears there hasn't been questions lately and i am wondering if you really understand it?
If you do, i will like to ask questions sometimes especially on areas that i think are very important to our christians lives today.
In todays lesson, the Reflection Section focuses on consequence of our actions, paying good for evil, showing appreciation and accepting gift that edifies God.
1. Can you give me an instant, when one of these has happened to you?
2. What did you do and what would you have done differently?
Just a paragraph for each question, not too lengthy. Thank you and God bless you
NOTE: The questions are for everyone following this thread including Omosivie, . Thank you no question! Yes, because I have seen no reason to doubt or not to understand those simple genesis: when we get to the confusing part of the bible I will stand a natural stance but posit reality for deliberation with hope of getting to the honey.
Now please don't stop, we get more to do, we ve done nothing yet, this here can't convince any muslim to christianity nor have you reached the problematic point of deliberation even from within the christians.
But that not withstanding, we don't ve to jump chapters.
I just noticed my studies on campus and network will be sucking my times, but never get discouraged, I will try to attend (frequent) this class, so I plead to hope of meeting my piece meals daily.
For the question: Cain paid evil for good, he disappointed God who gave him life. offering things he knew weren't of standards is paying evil for Good.
Now for paying Good for evil, Good have shown us his ways, and as his image and likeness we are bind not to pay our debtors back in their own coin as Good himself still promised Cain protection and life even after his deeds. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 4:42am On Jan 09, 2013 |
amen. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 4:32am On Jan 09, 2013 |
amen |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 5:44am On Jan 08, 2013 |
amen |
| Celebrities › Re: Picture Of Tiwa Savage's Manager Pecking Her In A Club by channel190(m): 10:18am On Jan 07, 2013 |
acidosis™:
 bros, ao far, like tis PM thingy no work for ur side o? How about that stuff...?
BTW, she can stay with my GF. |
| Romance › Re: How To Attract A Christian Lady In No Time. by channel190(op): 8:40am On Jan 07, 2013 |
megawax8: such a pity!!!! D thread has officially bin derailed.....my tots: jst show d church gal/guy dat u r actuali gud 70% bt u also hav a 30% syd dat he/she wuld luv to see.....they r jst lukin for a chance to explore opportunities,jst becum d catalyst to a mind blowin session in bed,u wnt regret cos d ladiez r quite untouched n d guys will hav d strength to last foreva since his shovel has alwayz bin in d store........#for stunch christians dou  |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by channel190(m): 8:39am On Jan 07, 2013 |
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| Romance › Re: How To Attract A Christian Lady In No Time. by channel190(op): 6:57am On Jan 07, 2013 |
uj_sizzle: I looove to laugh *blushes* wat makes you laugh? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 3:44am On Jan 07, 2013 |
amen |
| Romance › Re: How To Attract A Christian Lady In No Time. by channel190(op): 7:41pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
outrage: ^^
You already exposed yours by opening this therad. I guess I am playing catchup  join me in derailers thread, let us pave way for lovers |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by channel190(m): 7:17pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
caseless: and who is e-fighting? naming them here is a tip for e-fighting |
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| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by channel190(m): 6:52pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
sexkillz: [color=#000030]I thought this would have gotten to 800 pages before now!  [/color] few more pages.
Btw we ve all resolved that no more e_fights but love.
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| Romance › Re: How To Attract A Christian Lady In No Time. by channel190(op): 6:50pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
jammyng: Strategist channel 190.  |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by channel190(m): 4:46pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
going to bible study |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 4:32pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
one thing is guaranteed, God lives above all men |
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| Romance › Re: How To Attract A Christian Lady In No Time. by channel190(op): 4:05pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
obyrich: What if she's dating another guy who is not a member of your church? and who needs who in this scenario |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 3:59pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
obalola7: If we have been following since we started, the bible made us to understand that God comes down in form of God or Angels.
In Adam's time in the garden God will come in the evening to talk to Adam until they ate the forbidden fruit. God has always been a God of free will. He saw them, but never pay attention to what they were doing, until he saw that, if he does not act fast, the people will build to heaven, so he came down to change their language. . I know, I wanted us to stress that. So people will see how it was then. And also the category am going to talk about now obalola7: The people are on earth. Heaven is not on earth. If it was on earth we would have find out by now. If the scientist could visit the moon, they would have probably visit heaven if they could. na this Jehova witness people o. They said heaven is on earth. Sms |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 3:42pm On Jan 06, 2013 |
obalola7: If we have been following since we started, the bible made us to understand that God comes down in form of God or Angels.
In Adam's time in the garden God will come in the evening to talk to Adam until they ate the forbidden fruit. God has always been a God of free will. He saw them, but never pay attention to what they were doing, until he saw that, if he does not act fast, the people will build to heaven, so he came down to change their language. I know, I wanted us to stress that. So people will see how it was then. And also the category am going to talk about now obalola7: The people are on earth. Heaven is not on earth. If it was on earth we would have find out by now. If the scientist could visit the moon, they would have probably visit heaven if they could. na this Jehova witness people o. They said heaven is on earth. Sms |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by channel190(m): 10:59am On Jan 06, 2013 |
The bible made us to understand that human beings can achieved impossibilities with one mind and determination. If God created us in his own image and he is God of possibilities then we can surmount mountains, if we believe and work together. There is power in unity."133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;" (Psalms 133:1-2)Unity brings achievement and help us to activate the possible not only on time, but perfectly. May God give us the spirit of oneness to do things in unison.
In the text, we were made to understand that Sarai had no child, Just had we had in our previous lesson that God does not forget, he has the master plan. There is no doubt that Sarai might be wondering why and Abraham too will be wondering why him, like we all do, when we are pressed with some issues of life. My friend, wait, God has the master plan andin the due time he will address the pressing issue."11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."(Jeremiah 29:11)
May the spirit of unity abides with us.Sexkillz two page left |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Bible Study: A New Look into the Word of God by channel190(m): 10:41am On Jan 06, 2013 |
1. God came and saw...where was he when they started building?
2. Where is all this people saying Heaven is on earth? |
