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oluwaahmed:
Bros why are u talking like this now? Is Jesus not the son of God of both old and New Testament?
Look at what Jesus said in the new testament
Matthew 5:17-20 King James Version (KJV)
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Wonder what you guys ate learning in church these days.

My guy this one pass you o. Christ fulfilled all the requirements of the law when he finally died on the cross and redeemed us sinners so that we who accept Him can no longer be condemned by the laws of the old testament. It's why we say he paid the price.

His death on the cross abolished the old covenant and enthroned a new one(the new testament).

Hope you understand now.

Lukgaf:
I bet after reading below, you will think twice before you quote this Ayah again:



When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. (Deutronomy 7:1-2)

“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you… Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes (Deuteronomy 20:10-17)

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. (Numbers 31:17-18)

Even in the New Testament we read the following statements attributed to Jesus saying to his disciples:

“I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence. (Luke 19:26-27)

"Do not think that I have come to send peace on earth. I did not come to send peace, but a sword. I am sent to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law" (Matthew 10:34-35).

Are these from the Quran too

Guy, what you quoted is mostly the old testament. The old testament is Judaism. Christians are the followers of Christ and so follow the new testament. Christ made all the laws and rules and doctrines of the old testament null and void. Christ preached grace and love only and lived his whole life as an example of such.

The Matthew you quoted was a metaphor for the sacrifice Christianity entails. There is no evidence in the whole of the new testament where violence or hate was encouraged overtly or covertly.

Again, I repeat, Christians are the followers of Christ not the old testament.

kdon0000:
I DO NOT GET IT. IS ALL THESE IN THE BIBLE? IF SO, I THINK BOTH RELIGIONS HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. Hatred,sentiments and religious bigotry and fanatism would do us more harm than we can ever known as a country. Lets live in peace and lets try to support tolerance and religious freedom without threading on each others religion beliefs or rules

Here is my response to that post:

Guy, what you quoted is mostly the old testament. The old testament is Judaism. Christians are the followers of Christ and so follow the new testament. Christ made all the laws and rules and doctrines of the old testament null and void. Christ preached grace and love only and lived his whole life as an example of such.

The Matthew you quoted was a metaphor for the sacrifice Christianity entails. There is no evidence in the whole of the new testament where violence or hate was encouraged overtly or covertly.

Again, I repeat, Christians are the followers of Christ not the old testament.

resurgentxtian4:
Nope! I won’t apologize to the igbos. You are not my God.

Very well then, let's leave it to God. I forgive you and wish you well.

Alcatraz and Dayokanu systematically laid the foundation of Igbo-Yoruba hate war on Nairaland from near the inception of this forum.

You two are analogous to the Islamic terrorists you want to run away from in Nigeria. I remember ancient threads of you and Dayokanu dancing and making merry on the images of impoverished skeletons of gaunt Biafran kwashiokor victims and celebrating Adekunle for decimating innocent Igbo civilians, children and women and threatening that you likes can't wait to repeat the carnage if Igbos don't behave and ship in.

Repeatedly you two taunted and mocked the 3 million dead and gloated for years inciting and deriding a traumatized people until they began to match you and your minions hate for hate.

You birthed, nursed and sustained the monster on this forum and groomed all the hate foot soldiers we see on Nairaland today.

I am not here to judge you. All l want to say is if you really want to be a Christian then ask for forgiveness and make atonement to the Igbos and Nigeria for the harm you have caused.

This brought back memories...

The gentle giant and Iron, I see you two. Gracias! Emeka Uche I hail too.

Meanwhile the field the kids are playing in is the Ngwa High School's pitch.

Memories...

Throwback:
Fight and lose, it is your headache. Stop wailing like babies in the aftermath that you were killed and impoverished. You should be proud of the fight you invited.

When you were forming alliance and enjoying the spoils, you did not know you were embracing slavery.

When Azikiwe was insisting that Nigeria must not have a secession clause you did not know you were embracing slavery.

When Azikiwe was detailing how the North will be economically blockaded if it attempts to secede, you did not know you were detailing your own sorrow.

When you were establishing a unitary government, you did not know you will become perpetual losers under such arrangement.

Igboman, stop courting my sympathy. When you were dictating the type of Nigeria you now reject, having found yourselves as followers rather than leaders, all was well with that Nigeria.

I have no sympathy to give you. Continue fighting with those you aligned with.

When there was a need to fight for Democracy and the rights of the Yorubas, we fought and won. The current democracy allows for debate to chart a new direction for the country, but such constitutionally recognised debates are considered begging by a tribe that would rather self destruct like a blind fool, only to ask others why they did not come to its aid.

Continue fighting your own fight to undo the errors of your elders who lacked foresight.

Beautiful nonsense. All warped logic and zero heart.

You sir is the definition of a seared callous mind.

For your information Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ironsi or even the coup plotters' sins do not represent the Igbo nation's sins just like Jonathan's sins did not represent that of the entire Ijaw nation.

These people were humans that made mistakes, erred and had weaknesses just like Obafemi Awolowo and the rest of us. Stop equating the wisdom or lack of it and the mistakes of one man or a group of men to that of their whole tribe.

It's this sort of tribal stereotype and propaganda that led to the pogrom and the subsequent civil war which we are still on the aftermath till this day.

Do well to find your lost humanity young man. Feel. Empathize. Swap places. Use your brain to make the world a better place.

Repeated

This is trauma. You need help. I can help you out. You can take your life back and make it whatever you wish. The past is dead. Refuse to be a prisoner to it. Today is a new day.

I am a therapist. PM me.

dokiOloye:
Not completely true about d Tse Tse fly stuff.
Our local breed(efi Igbo) though shorter in stature is known to be resistant to trypanosomiasis.

Those efi Igbo are almost extinct now. Haven't seen them in years.

If we are serious, and we should be because of this herdsmen menace, our animal scientists can find a way of crossbreeding these cows till they find good breeds that can thrive in the south.

"Now it is happening again. The nation is being smothered in Vaseline when the diagnosis is so clearly – cancer!"

Kongi, word!

Safiaaa:
Most of what you're saying falls back to exactly what I was initially saying. Pride, Ego, Jealousy is a serious issue with our men. Due to these insecurities, our men would interpret the slightest things in the wrong way and would assume the woman is trying to take on their 'role'. Assume she's prideful and all other things related. Anything threatening their 'role' is dangerous to them. The ego is like an egg that constantly needs to be protected. This is the reason why they avoid women in the financially stable category 90% time, they have the 'power' to damage that egg. I wish men would learn to be more realistic and truthful. It's not a crime to prefer financially dependent women, just stop being deceitful about it. I've also realised that Nigerian men like to play the blame game, it's quite sad.

You raised a great topic and instead of opening up your mind to learn from the debate you are here forming Voltron, defending your own generalized narrow perspective. Very sad.

Cannonleo:
I never insulted nor was aggressive towards your point of view, I used points which I was sure of seen and felt to define my narrative, I never laundered anyones image as far as am concerned this govt have always proved me right so what is there to launder


Lemme me ask you
you are commanding officer of battalion z, a couple of strangling troups return to base to report that FOB M has been attacked and all troops captured, do you ask all troops to commit with no iota of Intel about the situation. Forgetting that the company hq is in charge of that FOB, and since he could not call the overall hq to report the attack was he expecting them tO call him

As far as am concerned, kashim shettima is the biggest incompetent button in this case, you flouted a direct order to relocate all students
fact

someone ask the troops at the school to withdraw
fact

Principal has not been seen around till date but still earns a salary
fact

98 hrs after this happened you were yet to contact Abuja
fact

Troops initiated pursuit but were afraid of hitting the girls and had little information about the size,firepower or strategy of the kidnappers
fact.

A deal was to be struck but called of because of the number of hawks forming professor of BH affairs
fact

I understand you have your view point already laid out , the blame attitude I was once there until I listen to facts, meanwhile I respect you view, respect mine also.

Else you either choke on it, accept it or bury your head like an ostrich either way my words are still here

Kapish. Have a nice night

On the night of the kidnap a military post stationed around Chibok scampered for safety at the sight of the militants. They must have detailed their military ogas of the abduction.

Remember this was the era of phones. Read the article again, some Chibok students who had phones were already calling home. Chibok residents were calling both the military and the police for help as the horror happened. No help came. Sir, the army was well aware of the incident as it was happening.

Lastly, the kidnap happened during an Emergency rule in Borno. The Federal government had taken over nearly the entire security of the state. The state was supposed to be under siege by the military to forestall further loss of territories and lives to BH. The governor was not the chief security officer of that state as a result of the emergency rule.

These are the facts as gathered from the media and the events that happened around the period.
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Question is why would the military not chase the militants down as the event was happening?

A demotivated, low on morale military at that point in time. Two, a federal government that believed BH was a ploy by the north to make the government ungovernable. Three, a GEJ that believed that all the issues and violence happening in the north were by his enemies who wanted to make him look bad.

Commanders and Generals in order to retain their jobs will, of course, tell the president what he wants to hear. It's your enemies. They have come again. Give them no heed.

May God save this country from serial incompetent leadership at all levels. God help Nigeria

AnanseK:
Igbos have no cows, so this proverb is plagiarized. They have grass cutters , lizards and dwarf goats.

You are so wrong. Igbos have cows, ehi Igbo, which is not as big as the ones from the north. I believe they have almost gone into extinction now though as many Igbos abandoned farming and animal husbandry.

Funny Igbo names :

Onukwube - Let the mouth continue talking.

Nnodumele - Make I siddon dey look (let me sit and be observing/looking)

Ogbansiegbe - the one who shoots at poison/juju.

Eke40seven:
Lol..

Azubuike means, "Strength lies in the back" more like an anatomical explaination. I don't know if there is a deeper meaning to it though.

Azu names are usually misunderstood by many these days. Azu means back. Metaphorically it means backers.

Azubuike - my backer(s) (God, family, friends, relatives who are backing /supporting me) is my strength.

Same etymology as Azuka: usually short for Azukaego - Having backers/family/people who support or fight for you is better/more superior/powerful (than having money, in the case of Azukaego).

chysam:
Remain blessed.Do you also know that He was a champion league winner with a team that ruled the world for over ten years. He played every single match for 90 minutes as a first team player and was the livewire of players like Marco Van Basten,Rudd Gulllit,Frank Rijkard,Frank Koeman,Marc Overmars,and the other dutch and later barca striker with his killer passes and assists.Most people here dont know his magnitude and soccer process.

Of all the people you mentioned he only played with Marc Overmars and Rijkard. But yes, he was a very good winger and won a lot of titles with Ajax.

I'm really touched by your very painful story. My question is what's your husband's upbringing like? What was the relationship between him and his parents like? What was the relationship between his parents like? What kind of family did he come from?

I am asking these questions because since he has provided no clue we have to make informed guesses and suppositions. There's is a chance you are dealing with a far deeper issue - a broken man who needs fixing himself.

If he was raised in a deeply dysfunctional home then you've found the roots of the problem.

Dysfunctional parents and homes raise mostly dysfunctional children. Like begets like. You may be dealing with a man incapable of receiving love or loving another. Train a child in the way he should go and when he is grown he will not depart from it.

This may not solve the problem but at least you know what you are dealing with. But if you are lucky a solution may arise from this. A problem diagnosed is half solved.

[quote author=purplesummer post=54065056][/quote]Hi purplesummer. How are you doing? Have answered your pm. Check your email. Awaiting your response.

NwaAmaikpe:



Nice one,
I'm happy she was booted out.
She was thinking the scars on her body will make her a winner.
Unfortuantely, scars are not regarded as talents.

Enough of her 'pity-me' presentations.
Talent not sentiments is what you need in a talent show like AGT.
This is not BBNaija where Efe whipped up sentiments by celebrating and advertising poverty.

I've never taken this girl seriously and she has justified that if she could even say her dreams have come true...just for being on the show?
What will the winner then say.

I know her guardian angel who saved her from that plane crash is even more heartborken now...
If after keeping her alive all she could become is a mere contestant in a Talent show.

Sometimes you make sense, at other times, like this one, you just type the most hideous of idiocies. A girl like this who survived such gruesome horror and still had the belief in self and faith to go for her dreams is a role model and deserves all the accolades she is getting. Many in her shoes will be crouching somewhere hiding from the world and bingeing on self pity.

Retrace your steps, young man. Heads go with hearts. Find your heart before it's too late.

pazienza:
You should take a look at the mirror, and tell me why you are more fixated on denigrating the Igbo man and Igbo nation than questioning the efficiency of the Nigerian police force who failed Ozubulu people today.

Ask yourself, are you okay at all?
Why am I reasoning upside down, once I hear the word Igbo?

Pazienza nwanna!!! I respect you a lot on this forum but you failed it this time. If the report is true that the bishop is into drugs and that the killing is drug related then he has brought shame and death to his immediate family, his village, Ozubulu, and by extension Igboland and has therefore committed a taboo. I will go as far as calling him an efulefu.

Ajugi aju eri na-ebute ariagi aria anwu. The community and the church have questions to answer.

This Ozubulu matter calls for sober reflection not grand standing.

There are many honest and legitimate Igbo business men and women all over the world but we must begin to ask for the source of people's wealth before we glorify them.

Because of hardship, poverty and the near absence of job opportunities in Igboland since the Civil War many young men have devised creative ways to survive or make it. Sometimes those ways are ignoble. We must tell ourselves the truth.

There are good and bad people in every tribe in Nigeria. Every tribe have their own challenges and shortcomings and vices. My focus today is on my tribe and what we ought to do differently.

We must do something about re-teaching our values to our people before it's too late. We must re-educate our young men on what is good and honourable.

Ezi afa ka ego is a core Igbo value!
Let's ingrain it into the brain of every Igbo man and woman as we begin to rebuild the Igbo nation.

It's a good place to start.

Edemede gi a atogbuola m. O di kajad!! Jidekaiji!!!

Hristo Stoichkov, the Bulgarian legend

I served in Emohua many years ago and I can tell you for free that this community, like many communities in Rivers State, is a den of cultists - adults and secondary school students alike...

It's painful that nobody in government is even proffering a solution to the cankerworm of cultism in this country. We seem to have accepted this idiocy as a way of life. Tufiakwa! God forbid! What is wrong with us as a people?

How is Biafra going to restore and entrench our values of honesty & integrity (ezi-aha-ka-ego), love (onye-ahana-nwanne-ya), justice (ofo) and industry(mbo) as national values? Or is it going to be business as usual and any-thing-goes in the new Biafra?

Op, wrong title. It's not Microsoft. Microsoft has nothing to do with this. Paul Allen left Microsoft many years ago. It's Stratolaunch. He partnered with Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites.

Ezionye:
Really? Correct me if i am wrong, that is supposed to be a blushing emoji. Or not?

Anyways, thanks.

My bad then. You are welcome.

Sorry I misread you. These emojis can be confusing at times.

Ezionye:

Is that your reaction to a compliment? Really?

Ezionye:
She sure looks fab

But not as fabulous as you though.

NwamaziNwaAro:

SCAM!!!
OP do you know what acting is??

Even if you can't act, Hakeem can transform you.

Look below for before and After pictures of Nancy Isime...


That Chibok mother above is an actor
And the released Chibok girls are cast and crew of this administration's hit soap opera.

Bia Nwa Mazi, you guys should stop this nonsense conspiracy theories. Jonathan's loss was self inflicted. He couldn't deliver for Nigeria nor the Ijaw nation nor do anything for the Igbo nation you love so much and could not provide answers for the missing girls in his tenure but instead played the eternal victim. That's a fail grade for any President anywhere in the world.

As an Igbo man, I urge you and others like you on this Nairaland to begin to think about the good of the Igbo nation without corrupting it with this Jonathan nonsense.

Know this, the destiny of the Igbo nation and Jonathan are not intertwined. They are mutually exclusive. You can take this to the bank. Naaansense!

He was an All States Bank branch manager or something, not the MD. The OP is trying to inspire you not to despise the days of little beginning.

He served Ebitimi Banigo (the wealthy man behind All States then) but today All States is no more while Elumelu's own bank is a behemoth and he's become a very wealthy man running a successful conglomerate, dwarfing the achievements of his boss.

Lessons : Vision + hard work + grit + excellence will take you very far. There is always room at the top.