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LordReed:
That doesn't answer the question of how the god giving an instruction to do something it hates and expecting compliance makes sense.

You appear to lack comprehension either on purpose or out of lack of capacity. I have answered you to the best I can and if I think of a better way to put it, I will do just that.

Baddiezz:
lol as if he can take the bag to heaven

Hospital don't treat here in Nigeria if you don't deposit and that money can be useful in saving him in such situation. I can't tell how they act in Ghana though.

LordReed:
How?

It shows Abraham was willing to be the first man to obey God on a new instruction. It is all about faith and obedience.

Islamic something.

MJBOLT:

why would an omniscient being test someone?

To test and prove that person faithful. God still test men till this day but in less dramatic ways to prove them wrong. A brother who has never handled large money in church may say he can never be tempted to steal. but God knowing him more than him may present a brief opportunity for him to handle money and show him he is capable of such. That doesn't mean God tempted him but he tested him and he failed. Remember He is the moulder and able to mould one vessel to honour and another to dishonour.

LordReed:
So to you it makes sense to test Abraham with a practice the god declares it hates? And the god expected Abraham to comply?

It makes perfect sense.

XxSabrinaxX:
And God was testing him to prove what exactly? Why does God need to "test" if he already knows the outcome?

1.) Faithfulness.
2.) He tested him to prove it and recorded it in His word ( bible ) for you and I.

XxSabrinaxX:
Because he's a manipulative sociopath.

Open a thread with account A and reply with account B.

malvisguy212:
let me ask you this. if Abraham decided to sacrifice Issac on his own. will God accept his sacrifice ?

No.
As a matter of fact no man will sacrifice his son ordinarily out of reverence or as voluntary unprovoked worship for a supernatural being. That's the last thing a man will do and those who do it, do it for power, money, or something they desperately want from dark sources. God tests and doesnt tempt. James 1:13-14.

God tests and doesn't tempt. He proved Abraham was a faithful servant. It is the devil who tempts by leaving or allowing them to do the actual killing.
James 1:13-14. God tempts no one but all are tempted by their desires.

There is a saying : a man with no opportunity yet calls himself an honest man. God presents an opportunity for man to act out his real subconscious plans without hurting anyone and see man's reaction.

God could have allowed Abraham to go ahead with the killing to prove Abraham was loyal but only tested him far enough to see his choice ( obedience or disobedience ). on the contrary, devil is totally out to make as many parents slaughter their bright children and doesn't say no except when God exempts the victim.

davinero1:
Jos is quite far oh. I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks for your response. I appreciate it.

I am just curious about what this online payment opportunity is about. could you pls hint a fellow nairalander?

The nation was set up to help people with nothing to lose access the resource of people with something to lose who are the minority and happen to be outnumbered.
Any attempt at debating the award process for management of key resources is just an exercise in futility as the majority with nothing to lose dominate the law making arm of the nation and will simple silence any logical proposal in favour of self serving ones.
What has happened to the PIGB as fair as it appears? Nothing!

Originakalokalo:
Before I start, Let me say this.....Muslims post a lot of rubbish online to encourage themselves...

The way you guys read the Bible upsidedown, looking for a way to keep you guys going, is terrible.

If you like, continue to deceive yourselves with Posts by someone who has no idea of the scriptures...

Without Jesus, and his blood, YOU GO TO HELL.

It is not negotiable.

How best can I explain Islam?
Let me try...
In the Old Testament, God allowed many things to happen and gave grace for many of them. They were performed by God to prove points. In the midst of these great and visionary happenings, God chose the nation of Israel to represent his followers, either chosen or called.

Someone from the other side rises and becomes a prophet to the gullible non Israelite of that time. He knows he isn't God sent and thus modifies the scripture to protect and magnify himself both while alive and dead.

If not how can a religion be so violent, secretive and carnal as Islam has become today?

MightySparrow:
Good, tamed by their conscience or overwhelmingly bad people?

The latter.

MightySparrow:
You cannot compare blacks with white. the vilest among whites is more honest than the purest of blacks by default. blacks can never be reasonable till thy kingdom come

This isn't correct. There are whites worse than many blacks. It is just that the good blacks appear tamed.

Instead of a simple congratulatory message see boys measuring her beauty as if her body is now a public thing.
The world needs brains and hands willing to work and not all these slaying mamas nairalanders are always on the look out for. Only her future husband needs to find her beautiful and not the whole world.

yemi15:
The nonsense most Nigerians continue to say SMH. Most of you Nigerians that go to church and mosque, why is the country full of evil, is it not suppose to be opposite? Canada people no dey carry church for head, white man dey go work on Sundays, and their country na way better country than this shithole.

Oga there are many factors affecting black men . Peer pressure is one.

jesusjnr:
You should never have come to that my thread to spoil my efforts there, because it's obvious you don't give a dime about the poor, so why show your face?

God really cares about the poor and needy and I don't think He would have been happy with what you did there.

Maybe you should go and take back what you said.

What thread? The thread has no link?

jesusjnr:
Wisdom of worshipping church buildings, let it guide you very well enemy of the poor and needy.

It makes commonsense.

Stop doing fake proverbs sir. The poor and needy also need spiritual food that will be served in those auditorium. You guys never allow any opportunity to show your holier than thou attitude go unutilized.

we can even see 100,000 in Lagos alone. It is about the Holy Spirit. Righteousness becomes very easy when you are filled with THS.

Oga wisdom is profitable to guide.
A pastor currently running 3 or 4 services on Sundays in a 12,000-seater church and want to reduce the burden of repeating same message multiple times as well as position the Church for anticipated growth will easily subscribe to the idea of a 100,000-seater church.
It is commonsense.

While politicians are generally very dishonest and deceiving, this man has a point still.
How can a sane govt be doing all the trash we are seeing with our eyes?

asalimpo:
the issue here isnt about the mode of learning. It's a characteristic of every free mkt system. If there's money to b made anyone who can scale d barriers to entry will join d fray,fighting for their own share of d mkt. It's happening in the music industry, phones , taxi hailing etc. More ppl are flocking to web designing/dev , android dev ,youtubing than bf ,including those without clear talent for it. As time goes on, the creme will rise to d top nd the dregs will settle. Every1 will find his level but d unskilled nd unfit will make d most noise nd cause d most damage to the profession. I can see how certifcation could weed out d misfits but it would also compound issues. Truth is, d nisfits also serve a purpose- they serve tightwad customers who care only about price.

The market will always be there for every field and open to skilled people or self taught people but most self taught programmers are ignorant of so many things that are required to build solid applications and on top of that tend to boast far far above their limit out of ignorance. I am largely a self taught programmer. I say largely, because as an undergraduate I did intro to C and intro to OOP ( Java ). But aii those were a combined 5 units of workload and any averagely serious self taught guy who invest as much as 2 weeks will easily surpass those introductory workload. It is left for me as a graduate to determine if I want to become a java programmer and then go do the proper study that, in my estimate, has exposed me to over 95% of what I know in the language today.
Nobody taught me there was something like design patterns then, I wasn't aware of network programming, or enterprise programming, I wasn't even conversant with selection, control and repetition statements like do...while, while, and switch statements after my undergraduate studies.
What you are asking for from lecturer by berating them for not teaching programming deep is like an expectant father who thinks his fresh mechanical engineering graduate child should be able to repair vehicles well, understand driving without learning it and even be able to tell road maps he has never seen just because cars ( mechanical ) ply those roads.

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AS the skrike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, clocks nine weeks today, some concerned stakeholders in the sector who are apparently frustrated by the lingering industrial action, seek for a fixed base system where government will establish education loan and every undergraduate pays between N300,000 and N400,000 per session.

They argued that since the academic union’s strike has become a recurring decimal in our nation, the Federal Government should emulate developed countries on how they solved the problem in their education sector to forestall incessant strike actions.

Speaking in this regard, Chairman, Parents Teachers Association, Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School, Mr. James Emadoye said the Federal Government should emulate the United States and United Kingdom to forestall the incessant ASUU strike.

He said: “In the US, an average citizen pays between $9,000 and $14,000, while in the UK, they pay an average of $20,000. However, the good thing is that once you gain admission, you go to the bank if your parents are unable to sponsor and they give you education loan. “The UK has just changed their system. When you take education loan, until you get a meaningful paying job and you are able to earn 25,000 pounds a year, you don’t start repaying that loan.

“We have also made this proposition to government. That is what we should do to detach the university/tertiary educational system from the government. “We have proposed in some other fora that we should change the system to a fixed base system, let every child in the university pay between N300,000 and N400,000 per session and establish what we call education loan bank system.”

According to him, 14 African countries, including Ghana, have adopted that system. He lamented that in Nigeria, everybody wants everything free. “Getting everything free will not help us get the right attitude from our children.” He explained that when the undergraduates know that after their graduation, they would pay back some loans, they will become more responsible. He continued: “By so doing, the issue of fraud among our youths will be eliminated and the government will be able to deploy the monies being saved from all these current budgetary allocations into other aspects of the economy and the economy will become better. So, that is a solution that has been given to government.

“The educational system at the tertiary level is totally dependent on government allocation and that is the problem. Vice-chancellors, instead of doing their primary duties in their schools, go to Abuja, first to the National Assembly to beg for budgetary allocation, and then to the Budget Office and Minister of Education to seek release of the allocation and this is the problem. Emadoye who spoke during a Press briefing to announce the 50th anniversary of Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School, urged the Federal Government to also learn from the way Catholic schools are run globally. He said: “It is a very painful thing that in the year 2018/2019, we are still having strike actions in our nation. As a matter of fact, the Catholic Mission has taught us good lessons on how to educate our students. It is unfortunate that we are unable to learn from the mission the way they have succeeded in managing and giving us good education over the years. “The Catholic schools were paying but we were proud to associate with them because we knew the quality that we were getting from the schools.

On her part, the Administrator, Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School, Rev. Sister Agnes Adepoju lauded the idea of introducing a fixed base system and education loan. She, however, called for consideration of students from poor families in such policy. She said: “The suggestion is great, but I am just thinking about families that are very poor that cannot afford N300,000 per annum for their children.

“If we take this away from the government and make it a fixed base, just think about people who will not be able to afford it even with the loan. Such system will work well when we know we have a government who has the interest of the masses at heart. “It will work when we are sure that after graduation, you will get a job. “The population of our country is so large that many graduates are without jobs, when will they be able to pay back such loan? “Such proposal is good but what about very poor people who will not be able to meet up?

Can the government do something about them? “I want to believe the money is there because we pay taxes in this country. It is for the government to sit down, evaluate the system and see so many things that can be done to assist our universities to put an end to this ASUU strike. “The strike also is about their earned allowance and the rest. The government should just do something. Even though they are going to allow the students use the fixed base system, it shouldn’t be so high that the poor masses will not be able to afford it. “Like we have Catholic universities, we also think of the poor and provide scholarships.

Even in Maryland Comprehensive School, every year, we have scholarships for students and indigent students. We have some people who are also saying they will like to sponsor this scholarship program for students.“ Because of that, in 2018, Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School’s WAEC result was 100 per cent. “When we say 100 per cent, there was no child that came out of this school last year that will say there is one paper that will stop him/or her from moving ahead. That is the type of educational system we need in Nigeria.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/stakeholders-see-education-loans-fixed-tuition-policy-as-panacea-to-ASUU-strikes/

Cc: Highered, lalasticlala, Seun

Nigeria my Nigeria...I hail.

DrMeroThaEmperor:
Primary and Secondary education is the key. Then students can venture into a Professional Vocation.

I have a friend who completed his Secondary Education in 2oo3 & immediately went to learn mobile phone repairs as far back as 2oo3.
We felt so much pity for him then because we thought he will become miserable in the future.
Some of us who were his classmates only managed to secure admission in 2oo8 to study any course 'suffa we graduate'.

Fast forward to January 4, 2o19, this young man has trained over 50 University Graduates in phone repairs, he is married with 2 kids already in primary school and in his early 30s, he is his own boss, and he is planning to go for his Masters' this year.
Moral: I lost nothing by acquiring a 'handwork' most parents look than on. Infact, some of us who have Masters' Degree still scramble for NPower & teaching jobs.

I wonder why this post has not hit front page yet for people to learn a thing or two.

Cc: mynd44 lalasticlala seun c'mon!

That's deep oh. . . You see hausa boys selling tiger nut and dates in wheelbarrow making more money than most graduates. Even bricklayers and manual labourers aren't left out. Most people don't realize the training they got in school was academic focused for a purpose and never bother to go for the practical training.
We hustle for university admission out of peer pressure and now start blaming the system due to false sense expectation from peers again. people should know the role of polytechnic and technical schools.

asalimpo:
mayb the self taughts you've met are high minded but it would b exaggerating to paint majority with d same brush. Yes, self taughts tend to b weak in the theoreticals. And lack motivation to venture there. On d other hand cs are strong in theory but (often) weak in execution. However, self tutoring has a distinct edge over school taught,in that, the self taught, understands engineering at a deeper level than school taught, because he had to learn it d hard way. No mentor,no preset assignmnts. The only cs graduates tht rival that calibre of autodidacts are graduates of top schools.
Self taughts dont/rarely dabble into esoteric fields like os,database theory etc because of scarcity of materials for outsiders and/or no monteray incentive for making d investmnt. Also d self taught mayb busy building things with d knowledge he has acquired about rudimntary programmng rather than seek out arcane knowledge. Cs grads seat thru it because they hav to but otherwise most ppl wont.
Self taughts are not in d same class as blue collar workers. Like repair technicians plumbers etc. First,blue collar work is more mechanical than theoretical. Programming isnt so. Those blue collar workers often train under mentors which makes learning easier. Self taughts often hav to figure things out blindfolded. Stumbling until they finally get it right. This baptism of frustration hones their doggedness nd patience making them confident to attack harder bodies of knowledge and cope.
Some1 who has taught himself c or c++ etc and built signifcnt software in it can teach himself ai or machine learning- provided he can find sufficient resources on it.
A self taught maynot knw all design patterns or any at all but it's not necessary. He'll simply meditate on d problem till he cracks it, reinventing the wheel in d process. And/or discovering some other patterns in d process. On d other hand,some who had programmng spoonfed to them,cs grads,cant cope if they have no prefabricated solution to build on. That's y these type always talk about framewrks,ides,libraries design patterns. The cant operate ab initio,strkly from first principle. Self taughts can! because when they were banging their heads in learning,they was no preset pattern to use. They had to think creatively. That's what took them so far and sets them apart

Most self taught are exaggerated. They are largely one-dimensional and only a relaxed CS grad will make them look competent. Most I have met are glorified for loop coders. Design pattern is zero. scaling is zero. efficiency is near zero. They just code hazardously and assume because programming isn't taught deeply in schools that they can afford to brag.
As for the boast about cs grads relying on libraries and frameworks, it is the self taught guys who are more of that. Most are even WordPress expansionists and can't relate with RMDB or Norminalization of DB tables. They only understand One-to-many and One-to-One DB table mapping.
Most know nothing about building even enterprise apps from scratch by generating a valid db schema for their enterprise app. Most can't relate with drupal because it goes beyond simple CMS concepts in more common CMSs.

Fuckuignos:
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