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Nellybank:
Wat else does he do for a living outside being a 4th class oba?

The guy was rated as 1 of d richest Nigerian biz men in d USA, b4 relocating to occupy d throne, Google is ur friend.

Happy new week

MrPresident1:
1Thessalonians 5:2-3
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

When you see anything resembling a worldwide declaration of peace and safety, just know that that is the signal for the end of time.

Let us watch faithfully as children of the day.

Guy better wake up n get urself busy cos d world is not coming g to an end. C how you've allowed religion to mess with ur mind, instead of been productive, you're waiting 4 d world to com to an end, smh 4 u!

Fortissimo502:
Nonsense rubbish. She should keep her sordid tales between her "god" and her. So God didn't have plans for those that have died? That phrase people use is so stupidly foolish and meaningless.

Grace isn't that crap so many people bandy around.

Sickening ignorance. *spits*

Abeg help me tell dem! So grace refused to locate all d people involved in accidents but located ur ashawo ass, ignoramus!

Is d match 12:30 or 1:30pm?

Happy weekend

Happy new month!

zazel:
believe it or not jesus is coming backbelieve it or not jesus is coming backbelieve it or not jesus is coming back

Lol, dude its been 2000yrs now, ur great grand kids will continue d wait! Maybe when its 5000ad xtians will finally wake up to dis scam from d mother church.

Cc: Seun, lalasticlala front page plz

littlewonders:
I was about reading this new novel but when I saw the Author (Fashola), I literally lost appetite and seduce my girlfriend back to sleep.

Live d mesenger aside & face d message, this is not about politics, tribe or religion.

All Nigerians needs to read this!

FREEDOM FROM FEAR, CHOICES BEFORE THE NEW GENERATION – BEING THE CONVOCATION SPEEECH DELIVERED BY BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA, SAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BENIN ON THE 25TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2016

Great UNIBEN.

This is the greeting amongst students on the campus of the University, and it has endured after graduation and stayed with the alumni; decades after graduation.


May this greeting endure also for all of you who graduate today, and may you fulfil your destiny of greatness as products of a great institution and citadel of learning.
That this university is great is beyond argument now.
The evidence of this abounds in the human capital supply she has produced for Nigeria in fulfilment of the objectives of founding fathers.
It is a rich store of personnel, not only in quantity, but defining in quality.
In all spheres of Nigeria’s developmental endeavour, there is a representative of great UNIBEN, not only in a participatory role, but also in a leadership role that is setting worthy and commendable examples.
The boys and girls of yesterday have become the men and women who define the developmental character of our nation and they are waiting for you all to join them to play your role.
Therefore, I intend to start my interaction with you today by telling a story.
Many years ago, sometime in 1983, in a Philosophy classroom, a lecturer was telling his students about the theory of evolution, based on the Big Bang and atomic perspective of our evolution.
He charged them not to believe things that were not demonstrable by evidence.

He taught them about cause and effect relationships of man’s existence and that everything was ultimately traceable to Matter – something that can be seen.

The students it appeared seemed to enjoy this explanation of life and their own existence; the problem was that it debunked their understanding of faith, religion and God.
They had grown up believing, as Christians and Muslims, that there is God. But they could not see him. How were they going to resolve this matter of ‘Matter’ and science on one hand, God on the other hand.
This lecturer professed no faith, and did not believe in God, or so the students thought, until one fateful morning when one of the students sighted the lecturer walking out of church after a Sunday morning service.
Bewildered, confused feeling misled or deceived by a teacher who told him not to believe where they did not see or could not prove, (and this in the student’s mind extended to God) and to see the purveyor of that view walking out of church, with Bible in hand, was the biggest betrayal that was not going to pass unchallenged.
The student walked up to his teacher, quickly conveyed his courtesies of “Good morning sir” and the following conversation ensued:
“What are you doing there sir? You came to church?”

“Yes,” answered the teacher. “I worship here every Sunday.”

“You believe in God?”

“Yes I do.”

“Why have you been deceiving us?”

“How have I been deceiving you?”

“You taught us to believe that God does not exist since we cannot prove it,” the student said.

“No. I did not. I believe in God,” the teacher replied.

“My faith is different from my job. Your school is training you to become lawyers.

“They have employed me to develop your minds to question and challenge things. To seek knowledge, never to be easily satisfied.

“To think, and to challenge the existing order, to drive change and never to settle for the path well-travelled.

“To dare and to dream, to seek new ways of doing the same thing, because as lawyers, people’s fates will be defined by choices you make.

“Their lives will sometimes depend on your abilities, as will their businesses or their marriages. That is my job.
“Whether you believe in God or not is not my business. That is your personal choice.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, that is as best as I can recall this event.
The school where this event happened is where we gather today. The great University of Benin.
The faculty that offered the course in Philosophy is the Faculty of Law.
The lecturer was either Greek or Cypriot. His name was Theodoropolous. I was the student in question.
That encounter shaped my life in many ways; and even if I say so, I am the better for it having gone through it.
If I had to choose a university again, it would be University of Benin.
It is that experience I had that I feel bound to share with you today as you leave the University.
If I successfully connect with only one of you, I believe the effort will have been worthwhile.

That is why I have titled my intervention: “FREEDOM FROM FEAR, CHOICES BEFORE THE NEW GENERATION”, in the hope that I will challenge you to take control of what happens to you and what happens around you.
I say this because there seems to be an increasing manifestation of our collective surrender of our individual choices and free will to divine intervention and the possibility of endless miracles.
We are now in the realm and reality of constant expectations of miracles and divine intervention.
Superstitions have taken over reason and logic.
When we pass examinations, win football matches, conduct successful elections, or achieve any feat, we seem all too frightened and unsure of ourselves to take credit for even the most modest of successes attributable to our efforts.
The first thing you hear is God did it.

For the avoidance of doubt, I believe in God, and only He can question my faith.


But I also believe He gave us a lot of free will.


Regrettably, we have surrendered our capacities and abilities in a frightful way to FEAR, that we have become victims of some confidence tricksters who deceive, disentitle and prey on our fears and frailties in ‘gods’ name.


Every man and woman of substance now has a Pastor, Imam, Spiritualist or even a witchdoctor or Dibia who is responsible for telling them what to do, when to do it, in a way that diminishes his abilities and surrenders his talents and free will to divine intervention or spiritual consultation.


Many people are disappearing and are being murdered in a crazed quest for human parts because some who have been entrapped in fear and superstition, believe that you can make money through ritual sacrifice.


Nothing can be further from the truth.

Human parts are tissues, bones, muscles and all that, and they have no place in the materials used to manufacture money.


There is nothing Divine in money making. It is entrepreneurship, production and hard work.


The teaching of science as espoused by Theodoropolous tells me that money is a product of man and not a product of God.


It is manufactured in a place called a Mint, by a process of printing, using special paper, ink, engravement and embossment, to make it difficult to fake or counterfeit.


When we play a football match and get to half-time, which is a few precious minutes to quickly refresh, renew and re-plan in the dressing room, we instead gather to pray, on the field, in a huddle that the whole world is still trying to fathom.


We waste the precious time that is allotted for tactical review, and return to the second half, singing and praying, “He is a miracle working God” in search of divine intervention.


The truth is that we have done well when we prepare and done badly when we do not.

Sometimes of course, working hard does not always bring the expected results but it is better than not working hard.


Yes, God is a miracle worker. I believe, but he is not an unjust God who rewards those who make no effort at the expense of those who do.


I once listened to a sermon broadcast on Television, asking people who are indebted to step forward for prayers that will make their debts disappear.


It frightens me. It does not make sense to me.


Debts are accounting, matters of credits and deficits. They do not vanish.


It is people who live in FEAR who fall prey to such teachings and become victims of misery from poor choices.


I urge you to free your minds from such fears.


There are many teachings about freedoms.


Freedom from want, Freedom of Associations, Freedom of speech, freedom of choice (including the choice of leadership by voting at elections) and many others.


But the least expressed freedom, is the freedom from FEAR, which in my view is the most important.


A mind taken over by fear cannot express free will and will therefore not fully optimize or benefit from the other freedoms.


For example, we have seen that elections are conducted in other parts on the basis of polls, campaigns, analysis of human behaviour rather than any occultic or sacrificial offering.


Candidates who wish to win elections must persuade people to agree to their messages and promises, and seek to change the minds of those who are unpersuaded, by understanding what they want and taking steps to address them.


Those who may not be initial converts can change their minds, as we have seen in our own President who finally won after 3 (THREE) unsuccessful attempts.

For those who do not know, let me share with you some of the things that President Buhari did to win the last election.


A poll was conducted across Nigeria and administered to 20,000 Nigerians as a sample, with each person answering 60 (sixty) questions administered face to face.


That meant that the poll had to analyse 1,200,000 (ONE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND) responses on what Nigerians wanted in the 2015 election.


The top 3 (THREE) were security, corruption and economy, which was to form the core of candidate Buhari’s campaign message that produced President Buhari. This is how to win elections.

Polls are of course not fool proof. They can be manipulated or misinterpreted by those who analyse data. They can also be misunderstood . – Hillary leading but had over 60% Trust deficit.


Let me tell you another story related to me. This is the story of the ram.


A friend related to me how his mother had a bad dream concerning his well-being.


The dream was related to the mother’s Imam.


His response was that there had to be a sacrifice.


I interrupted by asking if the sacrifice involved buying a ram and he said yes.


Seeking to know how I knew. My response was that Ileya (the Muslim festival of Eid-El-Kabir) of Ram sacrifice was 3 (THREE) weeks away and (at the time) any trickster who could not afford one would find foul or fair means to get a ram even though Islam does not make it a matter of compulsion.


Whilst I am not passing any judgement on the Imam and any other man of God, because I cannot question their faith, the coincidence was just too uncanny. Yet I agree I may be wrong.


However, I do not see how sacrifices are solutions to dreams.


Dreams are scientific events occurring as a result of the Rapid Eye Movement during sleep at a stage when our brains are most active.


Let me reiterate again that I have no quarrel with faith. What I seek to advocate is the lack of FEAR, and the resort to faith out of conviction rather than as a result of FEAR.


Fear takes choices away, and choices can and must be the product of conviction.

If we pursue our choices with as much conviction as we pursue our faith, we will certainly be a more prosperous society.


Let us remember, that at least the two dominant faiths are not original to us. They are inherited. The propagators of the faith have made them personal affairs and not public ones.


I have attended meetings in the West and in the Middle East and not on one occasion have these meetings been started or ended with prayers.


Meetings represent public undertakings and places of work and productive undertakings to deliver prosperity.


When those people have worked hard for the week, they go on Fridays and Sundays to their places of worship and their homes to offer prayers, for God to bless and prosper the work of their hands.


Sadly, back home, the head of Governments, heads of ministries, and businesses, devote early mornings at work to prayers with their staff while productive man hours tick away, they do the same at home and on weekends, we socialise.

In effect we spend a lot of time praying and socializing.


How can this lead us to prosperity? If this is not faith influenced by fear, I do not know what it is.


If you visit many construction sites where the Chinese are employed as contractors, you will find that they work on Sundays, but we who have unemployment challenges, do not often work on Sunday.


We have invested a worrisome amount of money in building places of worship compared to what we have in building factories, businesses and schools.


This is worrisome compared to the investments I see in businesses and schools that outstrip investment in places of worship in the West and Middle East.


Recently, while driving along a road of not more than 5 (FIVE) kilometres in a Nigerian city, a colleague and I took an unplanned census of building types and this is what we counted:

a) 1 laundry outfit for washing and dry cleaning clothes (Job place)

b) 3 clinics for healthcare (Job place)

c) 2 petrol filling stations (Job place)

d) 1 bank branch (Job place)

e) 4 shopping outlets (Job place)

f) 1 eatery (Job place)

g) 10 religious houses (Worship place)


As you go around your states and neighbourhoods, I urge you to do a similar count and tell your neighbour what you see.


Again I reiterate, I do not criticise worship, but I am challenging you to think through the choices you will make.


We will not pray our way out of recession, we will plan, and produce our way back to prosperity and out of recession and you are the freshest, youngest and most energetic workforce we will have to work with.


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ScienceWatch:
The first test to see if someone claiming to be a Pastor really is or was a Pastor in the first place.

I have serious doubts about Dr.Ray Higgins, will he past the biblical test on how to know a fake Pastor from a real pastor?

I Have learned more about the risen Christ and how to identify a fake pastor from a real pastor by watching Emmanuel TV and Youtube.com than any church I ever went to.

If you want to know if a Pastor is real or fake, simply examine his WORKS. The WORKS will reveal if a Pastor is recognized in heaven !

What are the "WORKS" Jesus always refer to : It is all the Miracles, Signs, Prophecy and the many Wonders given for our benefit so that we might believe that we are truly LOVED.

Examine what Christ is saying about himself;
John 5:36 But I have greater witness than that of John: for the WORKS which the Father hath given me to finish, the same WORKS that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

Christ commanded, “As the Father sent me, so send I you.”

Now very carefully examine what Christ is commanding his chosen ones;
John15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit (Miracles, Signs, Prophecy and the many Wonders), and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Importantly, because most humans lack the ability to switch between intellectual concepts and spiritual concepts, Jesus spoke differently to his apprentice pastors/disciples compared with the way he spoke to the masses.

Suffering people of all races and religions are now lovingly and effectively helped by the Holy Scoan Church and Emmanuel TV and youtube.com to overcome the centuries old trap laid for them by powerful church leaders, governments and influential Satanic groups.
See clearly how the Holy Gospels and the Holy Books Of ACTS come to life in Scoan Church Nigeria.

So its ur pastor, tbj, that's a real man of god abi, what happened to his recent false prophecy about d potus election?

sunkymike:
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Wanted to use Host gator but had problems with payment, how do I pay from Nigeria? Must I open a domicillary Acc or do they accept Gtb MasterCard?

Nice 1

jeffcheddy:
Earlier thread https://www.nairaland.com/3279124/gonna-propose-albino-corper-girlfriend


And it all started like a dream,but today a reality. I found my bone,my flesh,my happiness,inner peace and destiny all in a special woman. Cant wait to tie the knots in owerri and make you my life partner. Thank you for making a happy and better man. Thank God for Life. Thank you Nysc.

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Happy wkend!

Most interesting thread on Nairaland!

Happy new day!

These are some deep stuffs! What do u guys think?

Here's mind-blowing Truth About The Federal Reserve & those who run america, why John F.K. was killed, who was behind the 9/11 attacks and so much more!


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urheme:
so i had a sudden pie that was very painful... i was looking at it.. like.. what is this

in two days, sitting became uncomfortable because of the pains....i prayed about it.....went to church on Sunday..

a word came on it....Pastor started ministration..." there is an arrow of pie fired at somebody here.....Holy Spirit thank you....it is an arrow..... that arrow is about being roasted by fire....o you satanic arrow.. what are you waiting for...at the count of 3....shout fire eeee."

ladies and gentlemen ges what.. there was a chill and i was covered up with goose pimples...so cold.. i looked at the Ac ..it was off, the fan was not blowing at me either ....ok.. where is this feverish cold coming from .... i don't know.


the thing took off sudden... it was really burnt off because i did not feel or see it again......i can't thank God enough.

Wow, not trying to discredit ur story but it all sounds unbelievable! Aha, na only u dey d church?

[quote author=Ken4Christ post=51212645][/quote]Plz address d points raised in d op

Wkend classes started yesterday but u can still join d class this coming sat, 27-11-16.

Happy sunday

Ken4Christ:
Please, show me where I added to the word. I didn't say anything that is outside the Scripture.

Plz proof from d bible where god hid something from jesus

Masikay:
We all know hell is real. Yea. But have Yu read what the op wrote? Trash. And I mean absolute trash.

Hell is real? Are u saying God's anger endures forever?