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oluface: whats gorgeous about her

My brother I no see any gorgeous thing o... she

doesn't appear in public like a Graduate even though I heard she's a lawyer

President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday sacked nine ministers in his cabinet, the first major shake-up since he appointed the cabinet shortly after he was sworn in president in May 2011. Those affected includes:



The Minister for National Planning

Minister of State for Defence

Minister of State for Power

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Minister of Education

Minister of Environment

Minister of State for Agriculture

Minister of Housing and Urban Development and

Minister of Science and Technology.

Though the cause of the shake-up was could not be ascertained as at the time of filling this report.

http://ipaidabribenaija.com/news/item/63664-breaking-news-president-jonathan-sacks-nine-ministers

its 4 - 0. goal by Emenike, assist by Ogenyi Onazi

Any pictures of the jet yet? Anybody can write anything...

2 - 0

Via penalty kick by Moses

This one no be Atutuboyoo at all, this is Clinton

I think people will naturally choose the movie they saw first.

While watching my Olympus has Fallen, I didn't know when I finished my popcorn cos of tension

White House Down has a better and more realistic plot than Olympus is down though and I like the idea

that the President was a black man in the movie.

I just like both movies o jare...

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Cheei! Beat her guy up on bended knees, so much for you have to be romantic in proposing to a woman. Mssstchew

Sorry jor Indian boy

Stegomiah: "God can't ask you to keep quiet in this matter because his name is at stake too. The church of God is being accused here and same God is telling him to keep quiet? That is immaterial, I can't accept that. I came to church this morning to hear from him only for him to spoil my day with such statement."

This is the same reason for which the babe posted her confession o

The pastor has said he will give a ROBUST RESPONSE in one of his tweets so we dey wait robustfully

PS

I believe most people went to COZA on Sunday for one sole reason: APROKO

joel lala: Touch not my anointed” is a popular argument amongst Christian adherents – especially of Pentecostal persuasion – every time someone threatens the bubble of invincibility built around their spiritual leaders.

Those four words, taken from the Holy Bible, and shamelessly mangled out of context, are supposed to mean one thing: that God’s servants, by virtue of their “calling” and “anointing”, are above criticism, censure and accountability.

When, last week, a young Nigerian woman posted on the internet an account of how she was allegedly emotionally manipulated and seduced by a rather high-profile Nigerian pastor (whom she named; she herself was not anonymous), many of the comments that followed in defence of the Pastor were based, not on a desire to know/find the truth, but on the belief that she, as a member of the flock, should not have tried to publicly call out a servant of God the way she did. In other words: It is simply not done.

It was a similar reaction that followed the widely publicised video clip in which another servant of God publicly slapped a teenage girl, on the grounds of witchcraft. Anyone who publicly condemned that action was subjected to open hostility from those who firmly believe that it is not in the place of any human to question someone whose calling derives from divine agency. Regard that stance as a theological form of the controversial constitutional immunity that our politicians have since learned to abuse; existing to protect anyone who claims to be a servant of God from having to account to anyone but God.

It is an ‘immunity’ I find problematic, and, frankly, unacceptable; I believe that no amount of spiritual gifting or authority should obviate the need for accountability by all who claim to derive their authority and standing from the name of God.

There are lessons to be learned from the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church for years. As much as the church tried to cover up and dissemble – and that is not surprising – the sort of secular and legal scrutiny that followed ensured that in a lot of cases the truth came out.

If someone who claims to be a servant of God acts in a manner incompatible with the dictates of their religion, they deserve to be called out the way we would call anybody else out. If they break the laws of the land, they deserve, like everyone else, to face the music. That is the harsh lesson that a number of Nigerian preachers have learnt in recent years – that much of the stuff that people get away with in Nigeria – because of a general penchant for lawlessness, and a tendency for people to hide behind God’s name – ought to be unacceptable in any country that firmly believes in the rule of law and the significance of accountability.

One fascinating example of the pervasive immunity mentality comes from an essay by the writer, Yemisi Ogbe, titled ‘Men of God as Superstars.’ It is a brilliant deconstruction of Nigerian church mentality from someone with the privileged perspective of an insider.

She writes about a book, titled ‘Loyalty and Disloyalty’, written years ago by a Ghanaian preacher which emphasizes the danger of being a “rebel” within the House of God – rebel defined, of course, from the perspective of the Overlord: anyone who commits the unforgivable sin of adopting a questioning stance. By these standards, rebellion is akin to witchcraft, and deserving of nothing less than “execution.”

This is the book’s message for all “rebels”: “God will divinely, displace and replace you with someone else. Your seat will be taken by another who is worthier than you. You will be banished into obscurity and oblivion. There will be a curse on you and your family.”

Who wants to go up against a curse placed in the name of God?

Place that within the context of Nigeria, home to a people who, for all our unruliness (evident in airport terminals around the world), are given to a lot of ridiculously servile behavior.

You have to wonder why Nigerians aren’t doing a better job of questioning all forms of abuse of authority – secular or religious; corporate or public.

Nigerian Christians ought go to church not only with their hearts but with their minds as well, and seek to occupy that uncomfortable space where faith, whilst remaining fully vested in the divine, also takes full account of the existence – and importance – of rationality.

It is that rationality that reminds us to shun all foolishly simplistic doctrines, for example the one implies that if you faithfully serve God (which more often than not means paying tithes and offerings) you will come to no harm, live and die wealthy, avoid sickness – and that if all is not well with your life it has to be because you’re not giving enough, or attending church enough.

I think many of our spiritual overlords are seeking to have their cake and to eat it – living tax-free lives built on the contributions of members (last time I checked God wasn’t tossing private jets or cars out of the skies) and yet seeking to stay above the responsibility to be accountable for their actions.

As Ogbe points out in her essay: “Most Nigerian Christians understand well the contradictions in the lives of their men of God, especially in terms of what is professed, the lifestyle, and the tenets of the bible.”

Which might be fine – but only to an extent. No society can or should exist without checks and balances.

And no society can survive the impact of religion purely as a purveyor of materialistic comforts, the way we like to practise it here. By unifying the oppressed and their oppressors with the false comforts of endless hope (the insistence that with the right amount of faith the poor will find wealth, and the rich even more), religion – Pentecostalism especially, with its glitzy blending of materialism and emotionalism – helps us all adapt to and justify dysfunctional conditions we should long have revolted again.

How do you expect a people to revolt against a political class who own the front seats in the houses of God; and whose actions, judging from the consenting silence, or worshipful adoration, of spiritual overlords, does not seem to be in any way in contravention of God’s standards.

When I saw the title of this write-up, I thought there would be some element of scriptural reference to counter the ones other writers in this forum have used to express their ideas on the "Touch Not my Anointed " phrase.

I dare say that this your write-up is a mere musing of your thinking and cannot be used as a measure to counter any argument as it relates to scriptures.

So go get your bible and cite instances that can give your argument some substance.

Me I'm researching too.

Rich4god: So what happens to christians that dont speak in tongue. Are they short of the Holy Spirit.

No! They are not short of the Holy Spirit but they are just like a parked car with a good engine that the owner has refused to start. The Engine just stays there dormant.

There's nothing wrong with going to church with your hair uncovered, the aspect of covering had to do with the Jewish religion of covering the whole body as female...

The scriptures below will let you know that Paul was talking about the woman covering her head not hair, and verse 16 buttresses the whole point.

1Corinthians 11 vs..

3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.

9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

So u were manipulated ba? LOL!

You are just a good writer finito

Please can you guys help with pictures? Thank you

booqee: [b]it started happening to me since last year. Ok i'm sleeping, and like a normal person i'm ready to wake up, u know it comes from within whether wilfully or not, then snap! ur body soul and spirit is awake. Right?? But the case is different with me. Though it only occurs once in a while, i can count the times i've had the experience, the latest been yesterday. Ok this is how it actually feels, i'm ready to wake up, but i feel something holding me down, inwardly i'm awake, i can hear every sound around me perfectly, but i'm unable to wake up, my eyes wouldn't open, my body would refuse to move, it'll just feel like its heavy. To someone looking at me, i may be fast asleep, but i'm actually awake, unable to stand up, move any part of my body or even open my eyes, but i'm actually conscious of my surrounding.

The first time i had it, i think i just fell asleep again after the feeling, the second and third time too was the same. The fourth time or so, i had it, i struggled within myself so hard to fight this stuff, and i was successful.

I really did struggle within me, psychologically, and i felt it when i woke up, i felt sort of drained. I didn't like the feeling.

The last time i had it i just stayed like dat, until i eventually opened my eyes after several minutes. That doesn't feel cool either.

Ok i guess i'm starting to sound like a weirdo but trust me its d plain fact.

Pls advice, what dyu think is wrong with me and wat can i do to stop it.

I really do hate this experience.

Thanks.
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I think this happens due to lack of glucose flowing to the brain properly. Next time when it happens, try your best to breath in deeply and your eyes will pop open with strength. Trust me it works

To port just visit the network operator center you want to port to and they will do it for you... I have about N100 worth of unit left in my mtn line and they keep saying "You do not have sufficient to make a call please recharge your phone".

The whole will be good if we all just ported to Etisalat or Airtel

LecturerIFE: Evening, good people of Nairaland. @Femi4, I've a problem using an mtn fastlink modem I just bought on my HP mini 2102. The modem interface opens but the modem won't recognize any sim card, not even the primary sim card (this isn't an unlocking issue as I am not after that yet) I found out that there are some drivers missing from my system, and all my efforts to install these drivers proved abortive. I downloaded Driver.4.25.10.00 but I couldn't extract it to its appropriate folder... perhaps I didn't do some things right. I'll appreciate your sincere response(s) to get this problem resolved. It is a Huawei modem E303s-1. Btw, the modem works properly when I installed it on a friend's laptop.

Uninstall the old MTN fastlink software and install the one that came with your new modem. It will work

Menn
Can of worms loading ....

Hello everyone,
I noticed that twitter hasn't been working on my Laptop for more than one month now
and also Twitter APIs haven't been working on websites too.

Please is there a solution for these?

Thanks

Woow! Good job Governor Amaechi! You have done pretty well for your state...

Romans 10:

5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”[a] 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”[b] (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”[c] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:

9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[e] 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[f]

ihedioramma: AM SORRY FOR THE GUYS THEY DONT READ BIBLE OR DONT UNDERSTAND IT JESUS LET US TO NO THAT WE NEED TO PRAY FOR PEOPLE LIKE THIS, TELL ME THE WRONG SEX AND OTHER SIN JESUS TELL US NOT TO DO IS THIS GUYS KEEPING IT? IF THE WOMAN DID THAT SIN IS NOT GOOD. WE HAVE TO forgive so GOD can forgive us our own sin's, that is what we say in prayer. GOD have marcy on them there anger is ten much.

Bia! U need to do something about your sentence construction biko....

Back to the topic: Lets watch and see who the young man will blame now
if he doesn't progress in life after this dastardly act. Humans are becoming
desperately wicked abeg.

So did they discover anything in the supermarket?

Woow! He has done alot to help the poor and people without legal help in Abuja.

His programme liases with the people living in Abuja and the Government

Link not working

Lol! Looks like Mama Gee stole the show

abbakacici: Gombe is absent. So 14 will be Abia 15 katsina 16 sokoto

Gombe is No.2

Akshow: bone that thing. Forget that thing Abeg. Who you wan ground for naija? No be parent wey give pikin privilege de ground them? In case you forget, many Nigerians are leaving below poverty line so floggin and beatin of pikin no fit stop. I'm in full support of beating. My mama beat me no be small but always wit love and care. Even you yourself will know What you are punished for is justified. After the beating, my papa go draw you close tell you not to do am again. That kind beg de Make sense cos na den your head go de swell de cry but the lesson is learnt. You wan use only mouth warn four five year old pikin? Children wey be say Wetin you say Make them no do at that age Na im them go do. I say ay to reasonable beating wit love. I no ready to spare d rod come yama yama my pikin life

Well said! (y)

kingoflag: Hitting your sons will not teach them self-defense: it'll only teach them the same aggression which you are trying to curb as a grown man.

There are other ways to discipline your kids than assaulting them.

Flogging your child is not assault.

proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

There's a serious technical fault somewhere I believe