₦airaland Forum

candieangel12: Kay so after I got rejected by my ex for a 5th chance in a relationship, I decided to move on. Well as God may have it, I met a girl at the bar n we hit it off. Weve been 2geda 4 5 days now n I must say I rlly love this girl.

candieangel12: I dont think iv loved a man as much as I love my current girlfriend.

candieangel12: Things hv gotten so serious btwn us dat it is alarming. She knows how 2 treat me n she knos how 2 deal wit my flaws n even d love makin is good.our love has grown very strong under a week.

candieangel12: . Im glad my ex dint take me back because I wudnt hv met my babe now.

candieangel12: U kno wat dey say abt a disappointment bein a blessin in disguise.

candieangel12: Anyways sha since things hv bcome so serious wit us I was wonderin if it is right 2 go home wit her in 2 weeks time n introduce her 2 my family?

May I add dat dis girl is my 1st girl friend so I dunno how my family will take this.

candieangel12: Plus considerin im 28 n deyre disturbin me 2 bring a man home 2 marry but im scared dey mite not b receptive of me bringin home a woman instead. I feel like the sooner they kno iv fallen 4 a woman the better.

Omo Alata: When someone 'claims' to have been taken to hell and shown the torments of the people who died without Christ and pleads with us to repent so we don't end up there, they are usually villifed and mocked but my question is, "how harmful can it be?" They're only saying "change your ways"; "live a good life"; "give up fornication/adultery" etc etc. Even if their encounter was made-up i.e. fabricated, it will still make some people change their evil ways so it can't be all bad. Can it? Or what is bad about living a righteous life

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand so why would evil try to destroy itself i.e. why would the devil make up a lie that would turn people to Christ?

Johnny: Your girlfriend is very close to someone who can do anything to bring you down socially and politically.They have been colleaques though even before you came into the picture,and you asked her if they were going out,she said “no“....The thing is that you have limited powers over this lady because you don‘t pay her bills,and there are indications that you won‘t marry her.BUT she loves you so much and if you walk away from her life,she will be heart-broken and can even become harmful.
Matured advice please!!

carefreewannabe: the term culture can be broadly defined as a distinct way of living of certain people(s) including their customs and beliefs, art, social organization etc. Americans have their way of living, even diverse ways of living (subcultures). they have their customs (e.g. thanksgiving day) and they have their believes (e.g. quite liberal economic system, in which each individual can attain the fullest acccording to their own capability = American Dream --> quite liberal economic system), they have art and great artists, in film literaure and painitng and they have a certain way of social organization, which again is quite liberal but very often based on a conservative view of the family unit.

carefreewannabe: when the British entered Nigeria, some of them surely acknowledged a culture / different subcultures, others claimed the people were savages with no culture. Nigerian literature contains very good examples of how (some) British saw Africans.

ajf: Thanks for the write up. But my point is,couldn't God find a better way to 'defeat' sin than letting his only son die? Since he's all powerful, if he says sin is defeated then sin should be defeated...

maclatunji: What planet does this guy come from?

MacDaddy01: yes

musKeeto: good morning all..

MacDaddy01: Maclatunji is dangerous or do you want to meet him in real life?

Be careful ooo!


The guy calmly said that he does not have atheist friends and does not want to have them. Dangerous guy.

lathyph: @crazyman,is there going to b a thoroughful training after being shortlisted?

kenlite: Hi guyz, i really need ur advice badly, i really want to be a soldier by going to NDA, i meet all the criterials but i no God will equally help. But the problem is dat my parents are not in surport at all. Can i do it without them, is there any thing that they do there, dat i must bring my parents or my parents must do for me to successfully pass tru? Pls advice me, dis is my dream, i have just one year more.

sinetheta: am working and i want to have my bsc. and am a science student, i had been searching for some times but i did not get correct ans to my question. Anyone please advise me school to go. i really want to study but i dont no how

Gguy4real: Pls when is unizik pre degree form will be out and how much pl

jacksinou: Am A̶̲̥̅̊ graduate of unizik wt A̶̲̥̅̊ 2.47 Gp from chemical engineering which second class lower.i want Τ̅☺ know if i can get entry into A̶̲̥̅̊ masters program in chemical engineering

The three leading opposition parties in the country have intensified talks among them with the aim of merging on or before 2014.

SATURDAY PUNCH investigations showed that the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party began the merger talks three months after the 2011 general elections.

The parties have agreed on the need to unite against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 elections.

The parties decided to begin the talks early in order to address the problems that stalled the process in the past.

It was learnt that the parties were determined to beat the Independent National Electoral Commission’s deadline for the merger of political parties.

Under the 2011 Electoral Act, the commission cannot allow any merger of political parties less than 90 days to the general elections.

Section 84 (6) of the Act states, “Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, no merger of political parties received by the commission less than 90 days before any general election in the country shall be considered by the commission.”

Section 84 (2) of the Act states, “Political parties intending to merge shall each give to the commission 90 days notice of their intention to do so before a general election.”

Investigations showed that as part of efforts to beat the deadline, the parties have been holding a series of meetings across the country.

The meetings, it was gathered, were aimed at adopting a common name and mobilising support for the new party all over the country.

A top member of one of the parties said that they were aware of the antics of the PDP, which he alleged, scuttled such merger talks in the past through the moles it planted in the parties.

He allayed fears that the talks would not bear any good fruit because the parties might disagree over the sharing of political offices.

“What is uppermost in our minds is how to rescue the country from this misrule of the PDP. Nobody is talking about how to share political offices now,” he said.

The three parties, it was learnt, were keeping their agenda on the merger secret because of the fear that the ruling party would sabotage it.

The PDP had last month dismissed the merger talks among opposition political parties to form an alliance aimed at wresting power from it in the 2015 general elections, saying the talks would not bear any fruit.

The party’s spokesman, Chief Olisah Metuh, had in a statement said, “We hear of alliances and mergers every day. That is not new. Let us wait for 2015. Do you think Nigerians are fools? Do you think that Nigerians do not take notice of the character and tendency of individuals and political parties?

“The PDP is the only party that is committed to the continued existence of Nigeria and the welfare of its people.

“At the appropriate time, they will decide whether to entrust their great nation into the hands of regionalists, doomsday prophets and pro-anarchists or to the safe hands of the PDP. Basic common sense will prefer the latter.”

But the National Publicity Secretary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, Mr. Emma Eneukwu, in an interview with SATURDAY PUNCH, said the opposition parties were serious about the merger talks.

He said the ANPP was determined to ensure that the merging of the parties succeeded.

Eneukwu said the PDP was aware of the implications of the merger discussions and was initiating moves to scuttle the process.

The ANPP spokesman accused the PDP of planting moles constantly in the fold of the opposition to ensure that the talks were not successful.

According to him, the ANPP will ensure that anybody found to be involved with the PDP in conduct inimical to the ongoing discussions will be fished out and sanctioned in accordance with the stipulations of the party’s constitution on discipline.

Eneukwu was not forthcoming on the sensitive issue of the distribution of political offices among the parties involved, which is known to have caused the collapse of previous merger talks among the opposition parties in the country.

He explained that talks had not been concluded, but were rather ongoing as all the contentious issues would be painstakingly addressed and finalised.

He said, “We in the ANPP are very serious with our merger talks. You know that the PDP would not want us to have successful mergers; they wouldn’t want it to succeed.

“And that is why they have repeatedly planted people among us to scuttle the process, and that is also the reason why we are starting early.

“The PDP should be preparing to get out of governance because we are going to send them packing in 2015.

“I know how far we have gone in these talks; each time we talk of mergers, they sponsor people to destabilise the process.

“But if we detect any of our members in such an alliance with the PDP, of course, we shall subject the person to the position of the party’s constitution on discipline.

“We cannot predict the outcome of talks. Talks are discussions that are ongoing. That is, we are still talking.”

The CPC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, described the PDP as a dying party.

He said, “CPC’s alliance with its coalition partners is on course. It is a patriotic endeavour and that explains why the parties in the coalition are determined to make the alliance talks bear the desired fruit. There is the need to arrest the precipitous drift of the PDP.”

A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and leader of the CPC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, had in an interview with on online news medium, Premium Times, said the merger talks would be perfected.

He said the parties had similar ideologies that would enhance successful deliberations.

When our correspondent contacted Metuh on Friday, calls placed to his cell-phone indicated that it was switched off or in an area outside of network coverage.

Also, efforts made to speak with the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, were unsuccessful.

The PDP chairman did not answer his calls, neither did he respond to a text message sent to him to respond to the allegation by the opposition parties that the PDP was out to scuttle the ongoing merger talks among the main opposition parties.

Similarly, repeated calls placed to the cell-phone of the deputy spokesperson of the PDP, Mrs. Binta Masi-Garba, were not answered.

kenoxx: Hi fellow nairalanders! i am a young guy in his late twenties, a computer scientist and a radio and Tv presenter.

kenoxx: am having some issues with ma relationship life now after i lived a very rough life in d begining.

kenoxx: i have a good look and used that as a tool to deal with women bac then in the university

kenoxx: When i was in school,i met a lady that i fell in love seriously with still didnt stop womanizing.

kenoxx: i dated this girl for 4 gud years, she knew my dirty runs and never left me. instead she overluk dem and even suport me by giving me some cash to pay some bills.

kenoxx: Lo n Behold, after school, i came across anoda lady on one of the social network and before i cud say jack, we were both in hot love.

kenoxx: d first lady knew about the new lady and for the first time, she fought with me and pulled out of the relationship

kenoxx: i am so much in love with this new lady that i neva bothered to beg the other lady

kenoxx: the major challenge am facing now is the issue of finances with the new lady. unlike the former one that doesnt realy bother about how much i spend on her, dis new one will make sure i spend all my cash on her on other tins..

kenoxx: i dont want to tell her am not okay with this arrangment cuz i dont her 2 c me as a "STINGY" man so i always try 2 please her even somtimes to displease myself.

kenoxx: can i get candid thoughts on how to cope with this situation?

carefreewannabe: very arrogant to say that a nation has no culture.

carefreewannabe: this is EXACTLY what colonizers said about the colonized. from Africa, over Asia to North and South America.

carefreewannabe: in fact, there are different cultures within one and the same nation.

carefreewannabe: and just because Nigerians (still) divorce less frequently, it does not mean that they are a good example of happy and healthy marriages. wake up.

tidytim: Not sure how to add polls with this new design.

wiegraf: @crazy, while I symphatize, sort of, you're starting to sound like you endorse censorship, imo that is never a good thing. Some threads are started just to flame, true, and I'd recommend you simply ignore those. This one in particular was not. It has valid points that were never addressed (excepting some apocryphal stories). In fact the op was initially mocked by theists, though they were just playing around with him, actually seems they still are by ignoring him. But regardless, turn the tables around, imagine someone saying that xtian arguments must be approved by atheists before they can be made. Say my disdain for seeing quotes, imagine if I went around demanding there be no quoting in every thread. Think of a certain neighboring section.
If a thread offends you, prove it wrong, preferably with your deeds, then move on. Violating freedoms is wrong just about all the time (except maybe when direct harm is being incited, like mob violence being instigated). That's just my opinion though