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Criminals are everywhere. I told a baga there "send me a picture of what I am paying for via email or bb because I have your money now!" "He goes ok. I will send it" so I sent an email address to him and guess what he did? He lifted an internet picture of the phone and sent. I responded "is this the picture of the exact phone that I am paying for?" He says "yes it is". I tell him pls hold the phone in your hand and send the picture since you claim you are a customs officer and get the phone cheap.Next thing, I get an email with an oyibo hand holding the phone...the laughter of his foolishness has never ceased in my mouth!

Yes, this is true. i have experienced this for upwards of two weeks now. Int'l texts remain N15 though.

Reports monitored in today's edition of Vanguard Newspapers indicate that Nigerians may have been fleeced to the sum of 80 Trillion Naira since 2005. I have consistently condemned our practce of absolute democracy where government is replicated at up to three levels for instance in administration, we have - Federal (Minister), State (Commisioners) Local Government (Secretary) all for the same one country. It is a huge waste if you asked me and it does not give microscopic accountability to those responsible for these functions. The story follows:
BY the end of December 31, 2013 the three tiers of government in Nigeria would have spent N80 trillion or more, going by federal and states’ budget appropriations and statutory allocations to the 774 local councils since January 2005, Vanguard’s investigations have revealed.

On the average, this means our 811 governments spend collectively N8.89 trillion a year, N740.74 billion a month, N24.35 billion a day and N1.01 billion an hour.

If 2013 is singled out, the expenditure will be higher. Apart from Osun State, which is yet to publish its 2013 budget estimates, the Federal Government, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the other 35 states, barring supplementary budgets, will spend N11.301 trillion this year.

Source:www.vanguardngr.com

STILL WONDERING WHAT VALUE ALCOHOL HAS IN THIS LIFE!

For the first time, I'm thinking Buhari might win an election.What else do you require for a change. Jonathan was my man on his day of inauguration. Awaiting his exiguration.

May He recover soonest. The people who appointed him Governor may never have done so if they knew he'd have a crash and be partially incapacitated - but again, we are mere men,freaking mortals, subject to forces beyond us. I wouldn't even want my enemies to be in this state. He does not look well, at all.

Mavor: You should remove this.

Quite ignorant a post I must say. Tell that to Google not to the free user of open info they provided to
6 billion people!

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lakefist: its boredomness especially wen ure d only male child

Did you mean boring/boredom?

koolet: Since its no more alcholic then why call it a beer? Soft drink i guess btw op its too early 4 such questionz nau

hahahahaaaa! lmao

Too high a price man! What's your best? Interested.

It is not uncommon to hear state governments in Nigeria tag their annual budgets in some stylish colouration and hope-driven titles. I personally do not think this affects in any significant manner the impact that accountability and implementation has on that budget. For instance Borno's current budget is tagged "Budget of Collective Renaissance" in a nation of almost failed and unrealistic hopes.

In your opinion, does tagging budgets have any impact or meaning in real terms?

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A disappointing read. A mere narrative seemingly told by a simpleton. No depth, no articulation and almost a waste of reading and typing space. Not particularly intellectually stirring too. My 1 kobo.

1.3. Serious.

What's your best offering. Mail warlayspg@yahoo.com

Pls mail me at warlayspg@yahoo.com. Where can I inspect the automatic. Urgent response required.

Philolos: I didn't bother to read it. It was read to me. I just happen to be the one armed with the keyboard. I'm known to bang away - not to be confused with love-making.

You guys made good points and have also done a good job of spoiling them with your loveless Nairaland lives!!!! Rubbish.

My private jet story, by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor
on NOVEMBER 25, 2012 · in NEWS, TOP STORIES
12:00 am
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By SAM EYOBOKA & JOSEPH ERUNKE

The birthday gift of a private jet presented by a member of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri and chairman of the committee of the procurement of the jet, Kevin Nwachukwu, to Pastor Ayodele Joseph Oritsejafor, the head of the church and the national president of Christian Association of Nigeria, on Saturday, November 10, has generated a lot of controversy. In this interview, Oritsejafor tells the story of how the jet was acquired.

There is a huge gap between spirituality and actual faith in God. There is the belief that the love of money has taken over Christendom, rather than the preaching of undiluted gospel of salvation. Why do you think there is a shift towards prosperity?

First of all, as somebody who has preached the gospel for 40 years, I know that the gospel is a total package—it is for the spirit, mind and body. What has happened through the years is that in every dispensation, there is emphasis that becomes stronger than the others and such emphasis does not reduce the format but add to the format.

For example, Martin Luther was the one who searched the scripture to see how the Word of God could change the human being. But as time went on, we started seeing the Baptists. The reason why we call them Baptists is because the founder laid a lot of emphasis on water baptism; that is why today they are being called Baptists, not because they don’t believe that you need to accept Christ and be saved and go to heaven. What happened was that the founder had a revelation and a very deep understanding and conviction in the area of water baptism and he emphasized that.

Again, today, when you give your life to Christ, there is a big emphasis on salvation; that is accepting Christ and walking in the knowledge of Christ. Now, the revelation is progressing; as that went on, there are people who through inspiration and the study of the Word have more understanding in the area of prosperity and so started emphasizing on prosperity.

The problem is that there are those who preach and their whole understanding is in the area of prosperity. I think that is not good. I believe there should be a balance. I don’t believe you should not preach prosperity, but I don’t think you should preach prosperity and neglect the preaching of salvation, because we are still going to heaven at the end of everything.

Nigerian pastors are accused of prospering while their congregants continue to suffer in poverty. What is your take on this?

Well, let me begin like this, this is a major issue, especially now that I have just been presented with a gift of a jet. That makes it a major issue. Let me say here that every pastor must be conscious of the people he pastors. It is very important. I can tell you that as a pastor for 40 years now, if you talk to people that are genuinely my members, they will tell you the kind of pastor that am I.

If you watched me today, I was talking about a young man who has been trying to go to a university for three years now. I didn’t know him from Adam. One day, after a service here, one of my pastors brought him to me. As soon as he saw me, he held my legs and began to cry! He showed me all the papers, pleading that he had tried to gain admission to any university here, it never worked.

So he finally got admission to study in Cyprus. I paid his school fees, helped him with ticket and everything he needed, he’s gone. He has since resumed school and is there in Cyprus now. How many people will know that? In the last s
even to eight years now, I have paid school fees of over 100 people in different universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

Some of them have graduated and have come here to share their testimonies, excitements and even their parents have come here to thank us. I don’t know them from anywhere. Every December 26, I do a very big thing here. We call it poverty alleviation.

This year, December 26, we will equally do it. Last December 26, I gave out about six brand new cars to people; your denomination means nothing. Whether you are a Muslim or a native doctor means nothing here. What qualifies you is if you are a human being. I gave out 25 tricycles, about 100 sewing machines, and grinding machines.

Some of these people come here to give testimonies; some are now married and have children. There was this young boy, a Moslem from Auchi. This young man, nothing good was coming out of his life, he was rejected, nobody wanted him and one of our pastors took him into a teaching centre and he was sleeping in the teaching centre. They were helping him. This boy had driver’s licence, I don’t know how he got it. He had no job and couldn’t do anything.

Last two years, when we were doing the poverty alleviation, he applied. And they brought out a name which happened to be this boy’s and he won a brand new car. Today, that boy has rented his own house; in fact, his parents who are Muslims came to church on a Sunday and worshipped with me and danced all over the place and, after the service, they came to me and thanked me, saying ‘oh, this boy that you don’t even know from anywhere, you dashed him a car.’

They were very happy. Besides that, many lives have been transformed here. We have changed many lives. We have an orphanage here. As we are talking, an American couple has gotten in touch with me. They want to adopt a child from our orphanage. We have a clinic here that hopefully will develop into a full blown hospital. People go there and pay little something for treatment, but generally on Sundays people are treated free.

These are some of the things we do. Most people don’t know this and I don’t think I am the only pastor doing this. So a lot of people who are saying this against pastors are just being mischievous. They may have their reasons, some of them are bitter about something and they are not telling the full story about what is making them bitter.

But like I said, a good pastor must be concerned about his people. We have buses that we use in carrying people. If I tell you some of the things that we used to do, it will shock you. There is a woman in my church, when she came to this church, she had probably two blouses and a wrapper, no slippers, not even bathroom slippers.

She had never entered a classroom before. I didn’t even know her. She is from one of these oil bearing communities. There was a time an oil company in their community wanted to do business with them and she was interested but had no money. She came to us for assistance. I don’t think, at that time, she had ever seen N10,000 in her life.

So she went to our micro-finance bank, Mama (my wife) runs it without salary, she and all our directors don’t earn one naira. She went to the bank and said she wanted to borrow money. My wife asked her; `how much do you have in your account’, and she said, I don’t even have an account’.

My wife looked at her, and she called me about it and I said, `look, leave me out of it’. We didn’t even have that kind of money at that time. She asked the woman again, `how much do you have now and the woman said N2,000′. She now advised her to use that money to open an account and she did. Mama now went round to source for the amount.

The short story here is that she got the money, did her business and in less than six months, she paid back the money she collected. As we speak now, she is one of the richest women in Warri. She bought me an incredible car that cost millions of naira some years ago.

Coming to the issue of jet, I had no single idea of how it came about. It is true that people like us have gotten to a point where we need to have means of movement that will help us. You may have heard me speak about my trip to Indonesia, to Jakarta.

In fact, it wasn’t even Jakarta I was going to, but I had to stay inside an airport in Jakarta for five hours to wait for my flight, to get to the very city I was going. I was only going to preach for two hours there. I flew from Lagos to Dubai and I spent over three hours, changed flight to fly to Jakarta and then stayed five hours at the airport just to catch a flight to where I was going to, where I was to preach for just two hours.

And after everything, I got a flight from that place again to Jakarta, stayed at the airport again for another five hours, then flew into Dubai, stayed again at the airport for another three hours before I flew into Lagos. It took me four days to make a journey to preach for two hours. I’m a human being and I am not getting younger every day.

And locally, it is worse, for instance, the acting General Secretary of CAN lost his father in a place outside Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and I had to be there. I preached in a place in Lagos on a Friday and needed to be back to Warri on a Saturday, but at the end of the day, the plane that would have taken me was no where.

I had to charter a plane for N3.5 million to take me to Uyo, waited for me to finish and then take me back to Warri. Two weeks ago, a young pastor in Port Harcourt built a new church and had been on me all this while to come and dedicate the church and suddenly from no where, there was this flood that cut off the road to Port Harcourt.

There is no road now to Port Harcourt. If you want to go by road now, it takes you up to 12 hours to get to Port Harcourt and I had to preach in Port Harcourt, I had to preach in Lagos, I had to preach in Abuja and other places. Finally, I was able to find my way to Port Harcourt, it was on a Saturday.

I had to get to Warri that Saturday so as to be able to preach the next day, Sunday. Do you know what I had to finally do? I chartered a helicopter that cost me N2 million to drop me in Warri. When they dropped me here, ah, I can’t tell you how I felt that I had to part with that sum. But I had promised the young man and the church and if I had said no, will it be right? I can go on and on and on.

So, sometimes, my schedule is so complicated. Now, with this plane, it changes everything about my movements. Now, I can move, I can even go and come back home. It is a bit more convenient for me and I suspect that this is one of the reasons a lot of these other preachers have planes.

Does your congregation understand all these engagements?

They do. They feel the pain I go through and they feel painful for not seeing me most of the time. They don’t like it, they are troubled. I know some people buy planes, I can’t buy plane. I can’t afford it. I don’t have that kind of money, I still don’t know the people that bought this plane, but I know that there is a committee.
I hope you will get to meet with some of the people in that committee, I don’t know them. My wife is more involved with them. She (my wife) never talked to me, (about it) and she was acting strange. Well, I don’t want to get involved in this. This is my story about the plane. And I’m not ashamed to own a plane, I think it is a necessity and not a luxury for some of us deeply involved in the work of God to own planes.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/my-private-jet-story-by-pastor-ayo-oritsejafor/

pannyman: A colleague at the office recently bought a '97 Camry with a mileage of about 73,000 miles. I got really curious and went to this site, http://www.toyota.com/owners/web/pages/home to check it out. The last bit of maintenance that was recorded was in 2009 and at the time the mileage was 206,000 miles! When I showed it to my guy he was shocked and told me that the person who sold the car to him was a trusted friend.

Well, we don't know whether his friend had a hand in the rollback or not. Anybody can crosscheck the maintenance records of a Toyota car they wish to buy from the US or from a Nigerian dealer who imported a car from the US via this link: http://www.toyota.com/owners/web/pages/home. Just register using any address and enter a US city with matching zip code.

Even VIN records can be forged, trust me. I have done quite a bit of research on this matter.

Please note, 206,000 miles = 329,600km. That is, the car has been driven round the continent of Africa 2-and half times over. It is the Camry of all Camrys. Their Lord and messiah.

Click for Obama...see Barcelona! The Nigerian Factor...at play...on Nairaland!

If the agreement is legally binding, then Naeto C should do a refund. Hhe does not need negative publicity. We don't know Fine Boy Swag company, they will survive negative yans but Naeto C, has more at stake in the public domain.

Make it 10/10 Naeto.

21st Centrury attention seeking news begging lady. Why did I click?

Major crap. Rhetorics. Semantics. Talk. Nothing real. Nothing contributory to micro economic issues. Was unable to articulate gains on pressing national issues such as power, security or infrastructure. Quite a disappointment to say the least. Looked like he was a JS2 student while Obama the Senior Prefect in a school of presidents.

Our society needs to engage in some re-orientation of sorts for our upcoming young men and women. "LONDON" as we used to fondly call it and grow goose pimples over 20 years ago is no longer the same LONDON o. There are stinking locations in london, dirty streets and a lot of weekday drunkenness. While they have a very high sense of organisation and are usually very decent people, the jobs have gone into thin air, rates are not looking good, and you still cant park your car in front of your house in some places o. you pay TV license to watch TV, you do insurance for car and sometimes insurance costs more than car value, you must pay council tax apart from rent, London no be "LONDON" like that again oooo, london hustle pass lag hustle o

Can guys in the house educate me about the challenges of using the 2004 VW Touareg please? I would also like to know what problems the car has in a tropical area like Nigeria. Any ideas about price too would be appreciated. Thank you.

1.5 Stop it!

Over the next 90 years there will not be another 10-11-12 or a day occurring with a consecutive set of digits after those living in 2013 would experience 11-12-13 (Dec. 11, 2013). So on days like this do you do anything different or believe there are more to these days than meets the eye? I just buy a CD or something to mark those kinds of dates as my father did while I was growing.
Your thoughts Nairalanders!

ujchief: same thing here! If not for that Ebemma guy that is always asking about the price of gari, i would have been 4th!
Nanscenze!

And your ages would be?

benodic: ageing is part of the natural cycle of life. i do not know why humans always try to alter natural cycles. we are strangers here. we come to learn, grow and when it is time to leave, we leave and go back to the source where we came from. this natural cycle is actually supposed to be embraced and welcomed but because man has lost his way and is filled with fear of what happens after, nobody wants to age talk less of dying.

I wish we had some more knowledge of the "source". Maybe that will provide some physical insights.

tiniyata: @ all disregarding Nigeria, what if the 106 dooctors that failed are from universities in the US n UK? U are all here critizing ur own country.....foo!$.... If its on news that 60% Nigerians failed WAEC u all will be quick to call NIgerian students brain drain, n our institution a failed institution. What makes u think any US or UK students are better than us academically, if not ASUU strike, go and find out what Nigerian Student are doing abroad n their perfomances, and y'all will be so amazed. I personally graduated from UNIBEN and i dont think any US student can outshine me academically, except ofcourse u low life, low self-exteemed, unpatriotic s<umbags, who go about destroyin ur country, n yet claim to be Nigeria, if not for visa lottery or community support from ur village chief, most of u would have still been in ur village farms....mtchew

Can you step back a bit from the brags please? That's how we'll pass you question like what is cybernetics now and you'll start from a cybercafe point of view. Take a chill pill. Adults don't spew this kinda trash sir. Let's learn from you, boasts don't cut it. *hurts I know but just calm down*
One love bro.

You are so right. There is more confusion when death occurs naturally to persons at earlier stages of the ageing process. Neither am I afraid of both.

Hmmm. So the body loses the ability to produce or regenerate cells at some point? Why does the cycle end?Could there be a reason, or it is preparation for some continuity we are oblivious of.

Thanks though.