faaz24:
OP tow abi toll...just asking

Mr. Faaz24, the opposite is quite correct. The word there is Tow, not Toll. Toll is the word for the fees collected at a Toll-gate. Thanks

@OP, very interesting. My two cents: I believe that God made Himself subject to His own laws, as we see from the death of Christ. Also, the Holy Spirit will not dwell in a person uninvited. There are several other examples. I also believe that what happened at those times when the laws apparently stopped working was that God came down. By His very nature, the laws CANNOT work in His presence, so whenever He came, the laws were suspended.

@logicbwoy, you miss it totally when you say that God should have changed the hearts of men with signs and wonders. If that would have worked, why did the Jews go ahead and kill Christ? There comes a time when a man is so far gone that nothing will bring him back, not even when someone rises from the dead to talk to him! Please read Romans chapter 1.

The dead sea is believed to be the location of Sodom and Gomorrah. After the cities were destroyed by God, the sea was formed. On a nearby mountain, a rock formation made of salt stands, looking very much like a woman. This is known as "Lot's wife".

THE CRAZY GRAZING BILL - MICHAEL DEDON
The proposed Grazing Bill for Fulani herdsmen is an invitation to anarchy in an already volatile country like Nigeria. The Bill is already before the National Assembly and has successfully scaled through second reading in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. All that is left in the legislative process to make it a law is a 3rd reading, that is, a clause by clause debate and then assent by the President. The proposed piece of legislation is full of unconstitutionalities, ethnic discriminations, fundamental human rights violations, religious tenets violations, conspicuous criminal omissions and unforgiveable legislative indiscretions.
The full title of the Bill is, AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL GRAZING RESERVE (ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT) COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION AND CONTROL OF NATIONAL GRAZING RESERVES AND STOCK ROUTES AND OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH.
The Bill’s concluding explanatory memorandum says that the Bill seeks to provide for, among other things, the establishment of the National Grazing Reserve Commission of Nigeria, for the preservation and control of national grazing reserves and stock routes in the country. Its key provisions and high points include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. To establish a National Grazing Reserve Commission (NGRC), a body corporate.

2. The NGRC may acquire, hold, lease or dispose of any property, moveable or immoveable for the purpose of carrying out its function.
3. The NGRC shall have a governing Council headed by a Chairman appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate with members representing the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Resources, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment,Housing and Urban Development, the National Commission for Nomadic Education and shall also have a Director General.
4. To raise monies by way of grants, loans, borrowing, subsidies and donations.
5. The following lands may be subject to the provisions of the Act to be constituted as National Grazing Reserves and Stock Routes:
(a) Lands at the disposal of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
(b) Any lands in respect of which it appears to the Commission that grazing in such land should be practiced.
(c) Any land acquired by the Commission through purchase, assignment, gift or otherwise howsoever.
6. State Governments shall be given notice first before land acquisition and gazetting.
7. The Commission shall pay compensation to persons affected by any land acquisition.
8. There shall be no improvements, encroachment, bush burning, hunting, use of chemicals and felling of trees by anyone inside lands acquired and demarcated as National Grazing Reserves or Stock Routes.
9.Contravention of any of the provisions in ( above shall be punishable by a fine of N50,000 or 5 years imprisonment or both.
10. No Court of law shall carry out execution of its judgment or attachment of court process issued against the Commission in any action or suit without obtaining the prior consent of the Attorney General of the Federation.
11. For the time being, the Commission shall report to the Honorable Minster for Agriculture and Water Resources.
12. Native communities referred to in the Bill shall be any group of persons occupying any lands in accordance with, and subject to native law and custom.
13. Stock Routes shall mean tertiary or secondary or inter-state stock routes linking two or more States together or leading from grazing reserve to grazing reserve.
14. When passed into law, the Act shall be cited as The National Grazing Reserve Commission (Establishment and Development) Bill 2008.
The implication of this piece of legislation is that the National Grazing Reserve Commission may seize any choice land in any part of the country and compulsorily acquire it for grazing purposes. For whose use are the grazing reserves and stock routes to be acquired? The Bill does not say. It will simply create grazing reserves and stock routes for nomadic cattle rearers who we know are of one ethnic group – Fulani. The clause cattle rearers in the Bill can as well be replaced with the word Fulani, and it will be seen that it is purely meant to serve the interest of one ethnic group out of over 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria.
Passing this Bill into law has the tendency of encroaching on the fundamental rights of other Nigerians to own land and do with it things other than grazing. Farmers may become displaced in their own communities and there is nothing in the Bill stating how they will be resettled should this happen. The Bill is a clear attempt to hand over the entire country, its economy, its land, its citizens, its security and its future into the hands of one tribal group – the Fulani.
It beats ones imagination why the govt will be thinking of entrenching a primitive practice of a people instead of thinking of ways of modernizing cattle rearing like establishing ranches and bringing fodder to the cattle instead of taking the cattle to the fodder. If the bill is passed, unspecified but huge federal funding would be used to acquire land and develop same just to preserve a primitive life style of a few people who have refused to partake in the technological and social advancements that the country has recorded. Cattle rearing is a big business and many of Nigeria's leading elites are the real owners of the cattle and not those ragtag lot driving them about wielding sticks and AK-47s. Why can't these big men acquire land, set up ranches and grow the industry together with paying taxes?
The Bill by implication also contravenes the Land Use Act. The Land Use Act provides that “all land comprised in the territory of each State in the Federation are hereby vested in the Governor of that State and such land shall be held in trust and administered for the use and common benefit of all Nigerians”. The Grazing Reserve Commission Bill is in direct contraventions of this provision as it does not serve the ‘common benefit’ of all Nigerians but a chosen few. Just as cattle are very valuable assets to the nomads, so is the land to the agriculturalists and none of us is superior to the other. The govt cannot use a piece of legislation to legalize superiority of one ethnic nationality over the other 250 ethnic groups.
This piece of legislation should be resisted by well meaning Nigerians ad should never be passed into law.
(Special thanks to James Pam for providing some of the materials for this piece)

THE CRAZY GRAZING BILL - MICHAEL DEDON
The proposed Grazing Bill for Fulani herdsmen is an invitation to anarchy in an already volatile country like Nigeria. The Bill is already before the National Assembly and has successfully scaled through second reading in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. All that is left in the legislative process to make it a law is a 3rd reading, that is, a clause by clause debate and then assent by the President. The proposed piece of legislation is full of unconstitutionalities, ethnic discriminations, fundamental human rights violations, religious tenets violations, conspicuous criminal omissions and unforgiveable legislative indiscretions.
The full title of the Bill is, AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL GRAZING RESERVE (ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT) COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION AND CONTROL OF NATIONAL GRAZING RESERVES AND STOCK ROUTES AND OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH.
The Bill’s concluding explanatory memorandum says that the Bill seeks to provide for, among other things, the establishment of the National Grazing Reserve Commission of Nigeria, for the preservation and control of national grazing reserves and stock routes in the country. Its key provisions and high points include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. To establish a National Grazing Reserve Commission (NGRC), a body corporate.

2. The NGRC may acquire, hold, lease or dispose of any property, moveable or immoveable for the purpose of carrying out its function.
3. The NGRC shall have a governing Council headed by a Chairman appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate with members representing the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Water Resources, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment,Housing and Urban Development, the National Commission for Nomadic Education and shall also have a Director General.
4. To raise monies by way of grants, loans, borrowing, subsidies and donations.
5. The following lands may be subject to the provisions of the Act to be constituted as National Grazing Reserves and Stock Routes:
(a) Lands at the disposal of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
(b) Any lands in respect of which it appears to the Commission that grazing in such land should be practiced.
(c) Any land acquired by the Commission through purchase, assignment, gift or otherwise howsoever.
6. State Governments shall be given notice first before land acquisition and gazetting.
7. The Commission shall pay compensation to persons affected by any land acquisition.
8. There shall be no improvements, encroachment, bush burning, hunting, use of chemicals and felling of trees by anyone inside lands acquired and demarcated as National Grazing Reserves or Stock Routes.
9.Contravention of any of the provisions in ( above shall be punishable by a fine of N50,000 or 5 years imprisonment or both.
10. No Court of law shall carry out execution of its judgment or attachment of court process issued against the Commission in any action or suit without obtaining the prior consent of the Attorney General of the Federation.
11. For the time being, the Commission shall report to the Honorable Minster for Agriculture and Water Resources.
12. Native communities referred to in the Bill shall be any group of persons occupying any lands in accordance with, and subject to native law and custom.
13. Stock Routes shall mean tertiary or secondary or inter-state stock routes linking two or more States together or leading from grazing reserve to grazing reserve.
14. When passed into law, the Act shall be cited as The National Grazing Reserve Commission (Establishment and Development) Bill 2008.
The implication of this piece of legislation is that the National Grazing Reserve Commission may seize any choice land in any part of the country and compulsorily acquire it for grazing purposes. For whose use are the grazing reserves and stock routes to be acquired? The Bill does not say. It will simply create grazing reserves and stock routes for nomadic cattle rearers who we know are of one ethnic group – Fulani. The clause cattle rearers in the Bill can as well be replaced with the word Fulani, and it will be seen that it is purely meant to serve the interest of one ethnic group out of over 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria.
Passing this Bill into law has the tendency of encroaching on the fundamental rights of other Nigerians to own land and do with it things other than grazing. Farmers may become displaced in their own communities and there is nothing in the Bill stating how they will be resettled should this happen. The Bill is a clear attempt to hand over the entire country, its economy, its land, its citizens, its security and its future into the hands of one tribal group – the Fulani.
It beats ones imagination why the govt will be thinking of entrenching a primitive practice of a people instead of thinking of ways of modernizing cattle rearing like establishing ranches and bringing fodder to the cattle instead of taking the cattle to the fodder. If the bill is passed, unspecified but huge federal funding would be used to acquire land and develop same just to preserve a primitive life style of a few people who have refused to partake in the technological and social advancements that the country has recorded. Cattle rearing is a big business and many of Nigeria's leading elites are the real owners of the cattle and not those ragtag lot driving them about wielding sticks and AK-47s. Why can't these big men acquire land, set up ranches and grow the industry together with paying taxes?
The Bill by implication also contravenes the Land Use Act. The Land Use Act provides that “all land comprised in the territory of each State in the Federation are hereby vested in the Governor of that State and such land shall be held in trust and administered for the use and common benefit of all Nigerians”. The Grazing Reserve Commission Bill is in direct contraventions of this provision as it does not serve the ‘common benefit’ of all Nigerians but a chosen few. Just as cattle are very valuable assets to the nomads, so is the land to the agriculturalists and none of us is superior to the other. The govt cannot use a piece of legislation to legalize superiority of one ethnic nationality over the other 250 ethnic groups.
This piece of legislation should be resisted by well meaning Nigerians ad should never be passed into law.
(Special thanks to James Pam for providing some of the materials for this piece)

This is not training; it's a punishment in the army called 'planting'.

Good collection, sir. You should read (if you haven't already) "A book of nonsense" by Edward Lear. You can also try "outsized clothes" by L. E. Phant!

Great post.

Thanks, man!

Oops! Sorry. You're female.

kestolove95:
hahahaha, al dix igbo boys no go leave skool go stay shop wey God destine dem to b

Madam, look at the name. The young man is not igbo. Please be a little more observant.

Nice jokes. Keep them coming!

all4naija:

Come on, jerk! The bus analogy is completely different because it is without priority. But, in the banking sector things are usually done differently, like paying attention to companies with huge lodges and their representatives, providing separate means of attending to important costumers, etc. There is no doubt that white man is a VIP looking at the two escorts with him. I don't understand what this inferiority complex has to continue to rare its ugly head every time when a white person is involved in any matter in Nigeria. We are gradually becoming what we blame the white people for, racists. It is a big shame that is what you are trying to support in this argument and I cannot condescend low to such petty disgusting thing.

Don't give me that f**king talk here because I am not going to entertain somebody like you who cannot make good use of his brain to understand that chaotic scene is to be blamed on the system not the white man. Yet many of you are already seeing it as stooping to the white man's impetus butt. What the heck is that nonsense for?! Are you so dumb to know that westerners won't run their BVN sh!t or whatever in such a chaotic way and make everybody to suffer before exercising their rights. Come on, lowlife, I don't think you are making any sense here. We cannot continue like this for ever. Something needs to be done to fix the system and that's what the people need now not intimidating white people.

I agree with you, sir, but I agree with the OP too. When dealing with high value clients, bankers are usually more discreet than that. In this matter, they should have been discreet, apologized to the people in the queue, whatever. That's how it is done.

I believe the bank officials should be blamed more than the man who stood up for the rights of people who were obviously being shortchanged.

Very well done, sir!!!! Kudos to you! On a lighter note, I hereby dub thee 'Sir Voltron'!

bukkyseun:
Am hear oooo
I rep may 7

Yes!!! Finally, a birthday mate! And female too! I have found out that 7th may is quite rare. Nice meeting you. U must be very beautiful!

Read further and discovered that there are TWO of you beautiful ladies!! Am I blessed or what?!

By the way, I am male.

Pretty lady, so sorry that the guy you mentioned behaved like that. Forgive us all for his misbehaviour. I believe I speak for some of us when I say please give us your whats app contact so that we can respond properly.

The ability to cook and beauty are not mutually exclusive. I found someone who has both.

Errr....who is she again?

mileage, pls. Any issues?

@goshen360, great exposition, sir. Thank God that His truth is spreading. I would like to talk. Please call ne or send me a text and I will call you. 08037080847

location, pls?

Really nice ride. Will give you a call so we can deal

What is your location, pls?

interior pics pls? and whats d range?

mileage, pls.

That's a small one....

Chei! Your dog dey chop ebay and soup?!

Looks nice. What year and what is asking price?

Wow, beautiful dog you have there. I have a rott too. About the same age, tho slimmer. What are you feeding him?

Hey. Is the car still available??