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deshclones: Ur reply is priceless..u made dat dimwit look like a classical f00l..kudos man

Dimwit sounds cute!

Mobinga: Ha. Dis wan don dey mad.

U blame me? Just watching that video is enough to make a sane man run mad. . .stark nake.d

Biggyd2: Thanks. What else do you have in your arsenal? Nothing? Please move on.

That wasn't really meant for u. Guess my gadget played a fast one on me and d network prevented modification for a long while

Coldfeet: Nigerian television and radio stations are waiting for national assembly to give them the go ahead before they conduct any interviews Smh! Now that the foreign stations have done the interview they will go and copy and paste! bunch of maggots!!!

Channels TV discussed this yesterday and today. . .they called up Mrs Biringa, the mother of Chiadika, I think. That was an interview plus, it brings the gruesome murder to the front burner.

Your president addressed the nation yesterday. . .he had an opportunity of at least mentioning this cannibalism, commiserating with affected families, school and promising action. Did he do any of these? NO! Our leaders, as represented by GEJ are callous

Biggyd2: I can't imagine what pain their families are going through.

Hey! I messd up. . .sorry abt that. It was meant for the guy asking what BBC's problem was. . .I think, @Chukky, or whatever he bears.

I am sorry abt d error

killuminati: There are more muslims than christians on that list. I have seen many muslim-converts with christian names. so what are you mumu ppl saying?

Islam this, Islam that... Abeg all you christ and cross worshippers should leave Islam alone
Na by force, una don try, try tire to paint am black but e still dey white.

Una no dey see!!?

I can't believe I took out time to read your rubbish. Chei! Waste of scarce time

torkaka: oya where is his car parked? let me go and fix the break

you don't know English. . . olodo!

dayokanu: See mumu in action

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5018900473_5a9bcb9266.jpg

GEJ: What can I do for you ma.

Hilary : Whats your name

GEJ: They call me Jona, Sometimes Azikwe, or Goofluck, Ibos call me Odechuckwu, Yorubas call me Ademumu, Hausas call me Abdul-clueless, Moslems call me RETARDeen. So you choose anyone.

Hillary: Good. What are you core competences

GEJ: Ask Madam Turai, I can cut grass, catch fish, Wash bra and pant, cook and clean even prepare Akpu. Most importantly I obey orders

Hillary: Thats impressive, Oya lemme see how you can obey. Odechukwu shine your teeth

GEJ: [img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUIMNYkQFPJg8jflub7zMYgSKUiuVq5L0S0GfRlonPS6rcfmtJ[/img]

Hilary: (Covers nose) Thats ok. Oya close your teeth. Now make sure you appoint Jega as INEC chair he was recommended by CPC and Buhari

GEJ: Yes ma

Nairaland needs an "Unlike" button. surely!

fiftynaira: ..... Penalty kick

Wrong. . . Pakistan noni

THIS IS UNFAIR! I weep for Azerbaijan and pity our hustling brothers in that country. . .I see clubs waiting for d first Nigerian traffic offender

I hope the good governance train or bus goes to Enugu State this week through the Abuja-Lokoja Highway. Pls Maku swim thru lokoja to Enugu and other southern states. . .no flights oh!

jude33084: My dear actor

Too many grammatical errors in that report. Guess it was written by a secondary school student.

Maxymilliano: Can someone advise this broke ar.se nigga to keep shut his dirty mouth. It is on record he broke into limelight nd made cool money for himself during Obj's regime and yet he claimed the country is jaga jaga.

Since Obj left in 2007, has Eedris fared better in his musical career? Kennis Music has been pumping money into his dwindling career for a while now and yet no significant improvement, Obj only brought him back to our consciousness recently and which indirectly afford him another attempt at fame, yet he is busy tweeting his irrelevance in the entertainment industry... Get a life Bro.

U mean Nigeria was so good or great during OBJ regime? That EEdris lied when he said Nigeria Jagajaga

If we recycled waste the way we recycle news in this country, Lagos, Aba and Onitsha would be sparkling clean! For God's sake, this news is over 6 months old!!!

I am yet to read about a Nigerian who lives in Nigeria gaining an Ivy League admission at age 18, even 20. We need to start tackling d factors making us dull in our land and bright in d West

CrazyMan: Check this thread for better understanding about tithes.

https://www.nairaland.com/1046466/understanding-tithing

Why not bring ur thoughts here since ur thread is quite new (later than this one) and in line with this?

^^^ Deut 14:22-29 complicates things:

22 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. 23 Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. 24 But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), 25 then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the Lord your God will choose. 26 Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice. 27 And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Hmm...

denitro: tithing is not 10% of your earnings, it is 10% of your increase
There is a BIG difference btw earnings and increase.
<< Deuteronomy 14:23 >>
You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year.

Sometimes people ask should I pay 10% of my net or gross..
It depends on what you want from the Lord: NET blessings or GROSS blessings.

I access myself in terms of worth at the beginning of the month
and then at the end of the month re-access myself and then pay 10% of my increase thankfully.

Thank you. . .but increase? As in growth, promotion, added value? Salary is relatively constant over a period. So what's d increase? Let's take salaries as a basis pls. Again, by earning, I meant an addition. After a biz transaction, ur earning is ur profit. . .not ur total inflow. It may still be d same or close to what u call increase. Thanks again

@Mkmyers45 That's another angle to it my dear but even with that, we still need to visit d needy and put a smile on their faces. But I still want to to be clear on tithing and what a tithe truly is--10% of what exactly?

^^^ yes, it is! Mal 3:10

Hi, I know that tithe is 10% of one's earnings. For a business person, tithing implies taking one part out of ten of your profit (not revenue). This implies that the businessman takes out the cost of his goods or services, takes out his his transportation and office rent. He then proceeds to pay 10% of the remainder to the God as tithe.

My problem is in calculating tithe for the salaried worker. Many a man pay 10% of their net salary (gross less taxes and pension deductions). But I think this may not be the true case. I feel there is a cost to that salary like transportation. I know I may be wrong and that is why I feel like asking for explanation.

For how long has d salary been held? What did d boss say about it? Is she afraid of her boss?

ndala: pls what qualification do it require am damn need of d work so broke

Y do people want someone else to do all d work for them? open d link and see d damn requirements!

afam4eva: I don't get you. You're comparing jungle justice to a law.

sharia law isn't jungle justice! It has rules that guard against offences but just like he said, the punishment prescribed and meted out to offenders far outweighs the offence.

This Lagos traffick carries punishments that are too heavy for the offence committed and law cannot work!

My new church is 3 minutes walk from home...good reason but above all, its quite small. U can see everyone in one full gLance...my sense of security is greatly enhanced! Again, they try to teach rada dan reproach or reprimand.

LAW 39 – Master the Art of Timing
There is time for everything under the sun; a time to sow and a time to reap, a time to investigate and a time to report findings, a time for sting operations and a time for blackmail. “Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power: Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.” Farouk blatantly neglected the teachings of this law. He collected some money from Otedola (as evidence of an attempt to bribe and obstruct the course of justice); as much as six hundred and twenty thousand US dollars in cash yet he did not know the right time to report it to his superiors and colleagues who have now washed their hands off him. Guess he never really trusted them and didn’t know how to use his enemies (LAW 2). The latest press conference by Hon Adams Jagaba speaks a lot here. Silence was a grand blunder by a lawmaker of Lawan’s standing. Otedola, on the other hand stung Farouk, waited to find out if his companies were still in the report and then struck as the report was about being implemented. His aim may have been to cast doubt on the report and kill it off. If you ask me, it worked like magic.

LAW 40 - Despise the Free Lunch
There is no free lunch anywhere in the world, not even in Freetown. One problem with Nigerians is our penchant for cheap and free things. Awoof! This law is very apt in the Hembe vs Oteh case. While Arunma Oteh grilled Heman Hembe, I was secretly missing Farouk. I felt that the woman could not dare mess around with my man not knowing that he would soon be in a hotter soup. Most times we commit crimes because we owe some people a favour; we have received their Greek gifts and must pay back. We should always bear in mind that “what has worth is worth paying for. By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit… What is offered for free or at bargain rates often comes with a psychological price tag-complicated feelings of obligation, compromises with quality, the insecurity those compromises bring, on and on.” Lawan moved a motion-in the House; before television cameras- to remove Zenon Oil from an already concluded report. This may be the return leg of bribery or simply to pay for a free lunch.

LAW 42 – Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
Again if the executive angle is to be considered, then the appointment of Hon Lawan to head the probe committee must have been pre-meditated. In that case, the mission was destined to fail from the beginning. How else will that be achieved than to soak the most respected House member, Mr Integrity himself in the mud? Immediately Farouk admitted he collected money from Otedola, the integrity of his committee’s report was questioned and that drilled the final nail into the coffin. Mr. Otedola may be the cat’s purr used by powerful individuals to kill off any attempt at sanitising the petroleum sector of the economy. Now one that their most outspoken member has been felled, others will have to keep mum or...

LAW 46 – Never Appear Too Perfect
Hon Farouk had been unofficially rated among the best lawmakers in Nigeria especially to the youth population. To us, he represented the future and we had high hopes. He towered above his colleagues by the depth of his presentation on the floor of the House. He was near blameless and this tinge of perfection just like in law one above, can cause a bit of jealousy and backstabbing. “Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses… It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy…” Again, I ask; was there a kind of set-up? I like smelling rats, I just don’t know why.

In all, we should not write Hon Lawan off because of this. I submit that investigation be sped up and that both the “briber” and the “bribee” be thoroughly investigated. Nigerians should just get ready for the coming Pandora box. I rest my pen!

Donmeca

LAW 15 - Crush Your Enemy Totally
“…a feared enemy must be crushed completely…if one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation.” I must submit here that Hon Lawan was very naïve to have failed to take advantage of the wisdom in this law. He had three of Otedola’s companies in his books and the man was pestering him. Why did Farouk not record any of their calls? Why didn’t he launch a sting operation with the help of security agents? Why did he not kill off his enemy by reporting the incident on the floor of the House, instead of playing into his enemy’s very hands? In contrast, his adversary did or claim to have done all the above, thus turning the table and making the hunter to become the hunted. Again Otedola outwitted Lawan. Chei! Bush meat done catch hunter and believe me the hunter is getting devoured.

LAW 29 - Plan All the Way to the End
“The ending is everything. Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible consequences, obstacles, and twists of fortune that might reverse your hard work and give the glory to others. By planning to the end you will not be overwhelmed by circumstances and you will know when to stop.” I want to believe that Hon Lawan and co knew exactly what they were up against when they accepted to probe the subsidy regime - the super-rich; the high and mighty in the society. It is regrettable that they never weighed in details, the possible forms of obstacles coming the way of the investigation. They didn’t plan with the end in sight. They allowed the circumstances to shape outcome of their labour thus their failure…handing their glory to their enemy.

LAW 31 - Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards You Deal
If we are to go with another line of conspiracy theories then the trials of brother Lawan is part of a grand executive plan to rubbish the image of the legislature. In this case, I will give kudos to Mr President for observing laws 26 and 31 to the letter. GEJ has thus masterfully fooled the lawmakers into thinking they were in-charge and probing the friends of government while actually, they were destroying themselves. According to Greene, “…Your victims feel they are in control, but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favour whichever one they choose. Force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma…” With the aid of Otedola and others, the executive is now about to tear the “powerful” legislature apart via Lawan. Little wonder why Obasanjo made that audacious statement about rogues and armed robbers in the national assembly. He must have watched some nollywood clips.

LAW 33 – Discover Each Man's Thumbscrew
Every man has a price and as such can be bought...ask Reuben Abati. “Everyone has a weakness, a gap in the castle wall. That weakness is usually insecurity, an uncontrollable emotion or need; it can also be a small secret pleasure.” It is our work to know what appeals to, tickles or agitates our opponents. While Otedola and his people studied understood politicians’ avarice and craving for relevance, Lawan and co failed to carry out any kind of background study on their targets. The result? Otedola threw his bait and his snare caught a most priced game. It still boils down to reputation and starting with the end in sight.

On to d next one....