₦airaland Forum

We seriously have a very long to go.

Recently some 19th century trains are refurbished, some people were crying to the heavens ‘transformation agenda’, ‘GEJ is working’ etc. Yet some of these trains are nothing to write home about as there should be recycled, not meant for cattles, talkless of humans. Anyway we get the kind of leaders we voted for. All our leaders since 1960 are to be blamed for the systematic backwardness Nigeria is experiencing. I can imagine if China have got 10% of our natural resources, things will be much better than now.

That train station in the OP’s pictures looks far better than the so-called cement-plastering exercise currently going on in our nation’s airports.

I think we Nigerians should endeavour to travel more and explore different parts of the world to understand why Nigeria is looked down upon by other nations, because in their view we have the potentials to do better.

It's beyond belief that a cure hasn't been found for the ebola virus since 1976 when it first occured. According to a news article on Huffington Post, there could have been a vaccine available to combat ebola. But due to ethical and financial concerns, the mass production of the cure are been held back. You can continue reading in the link below:

The cure for Ebola may have already have been developed by drugs companies, but ethical dilemmas and financial concerns are holding back hopes of a faster cure, scientists have warned.
The worst ever epidemic of the virus, which has swept West Africa, has killed more than 670 people, sparking fears Ebola could move to the UK.
Two people have now been assessed for the virus in Britain, while two American health workers - a doctor and a missionary - have been hospitalised in Liberia after contracting the disease, prompting missionary groups to evacuate non-essential personnel.
But panic grows. Jeremy Farrar, professor of Tropical medicine at the University of Oxford and director of the Wellcome Trust, claimed the mounting death toll was "unacceptable".
"It would be unethical not to acknowledge that potential new treatments could both save lives and reduce transmission in this and future outbreaks," he told the Washington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/30/ebola_0_n_5633405.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

The correct amount should be 240bn naira.
Confirmed news.

http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/07/oando-completes-purchase-of-nigeria-assets-from-conocophillips.html

Some guys are just wayward, they just want to dig every hole.

We don't have a government in this country (either federal or state).

Something must be done to put an end to the lose of innocent lives.

I guess those in government don't have an iota of human feelings.

Our country is turning into a lawless nation where peoples lives are not looked after.

MarkMiwerds: For those who continue to insist on branding me as being against tithing, I make the following statement...


If a Gentile Christian insists that tithing is required, I believe it should be done according to the way that God ordained it to be done.

If a Gentile wants to tithe, he should move to Israel Deuteronomy 12:8 where God's Word said tithing is to be done Deuteronomy 12:1-18 He should purchase land in Israel on which he can farm or raise livestock and tithe from the increase of such. Leviticus 27:30-33 He should take the firstfruits annually from his crops and livestock annually to the Temple in Jerusalem Nehemiah 10:37-38 (good luck finding that) and his tithes annually to one of 48 Levitic cities scattered throughout Israel Numbers 35:1-8 to give to the Levites living in those cities. Numbers 18:21-28; Nehemiah 10:37-38

The Gentile living in Israel should also take a second tithe annually to Jerusalem to the Feast of Weeks and eat that tithe with his family and with the Levites Deuteronomy 14:22-27 And every three years, the Gentile living in Israel should keep the tithe on his own property to feed the widows, orphans and foreigners of his community there in Israel with the tithe for that year Deuteronomy 14:28-29

The Gentile living in Israel will get a full one year reprieve from tithing his crops every seven years as he will not be able to harvest, nor sow his fields. [b]Leviticus 25:4[/b]

If the Gentile is willing to do it God's way, Deuteronomy 12:8 I have no problem with it. LOL

Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

The Gentile that chooses to tithe according to God's Word should not teach Gentiles living in other nations that they are required to tithe Psalm 147:19-20; Acts 15:10,23-29

Your points are well structured.
It's amazing how most of our churches where tithing are preached don't offer the 7-year 'tithing time-off' reprieval as shown in the bolded statement.

Funny, yet true.

It's so amazing that the sighting of the moon is causing a little bit of confusion.

I sometimes wonder what those thieves in the NA do with their time and setting up of committees.

With all the various committees that have been set up in recent times, nothing have come out of them.

Very serious accident.

I think this is a very sensible appointment, if a well respected candidate can be put forward.

It is unclear why the presidency stocks millions of naira in cash at the presidential villa for distribution to visitors at a time the Central Bank of Nigeria is aggressively pursuing a cashless Nigeria agenda. An alleged N100million cash given to parents of abducted Chibok girls by President Goodluck Jonathan after a meeting at the Presidential villa on July 22 has sparked disagreement between some of the parents and leaders of the Chibok community in Abuja, the BBC Hausa service is reporting.
The presidency, the report said, released the funds to leaders of the chibok community in Abuja for onward passage to parents of the kidnapped schoolgirls. But some of the parents are now alleging they were shortchanged by the community leaders. One parent, who was among those who visited the president, told BBC’s Abdu Halilu that he got only N200,000. ” I got only N200,000 out of the said N100million allegedly received by our leaders in Abuja. Some of us got N300,000 and some less than that,” he said. He also said that he was not comfortable with the way the money was shared among the parents of the kidnapped girls and that he was shortchanged. “Our leaders in Abuja are using the girls to enrich themselves.
In fact, some of the parents were screened out of the entourage by the Chibok leaders in Abuja. Many of them were residents of Abuja, not parents of the kidnapped girls,” he said. Another parent, who was screened out of the delegation that visited the president, said he got only N7,000 out of the money shared. “I was at the farm when they brought the N7, 000 to my house and I collected it. Some of us got even less, N300 and below,” he said.
The parents stressed that they were not selling their daughters and that the money from the President just came to them without their asking for or expecting it. One of the community leaders, Pobu Bitrus, who is also a member of the House of Representatives, was at the meeting with the president. He explained to the BBC that after meeting with the president, monies were distributed to the parents in envelopes. “After we met with the presidency, the parents were given monies in envelopes and that’s all. All other things they are saying about N100million, I don’t know about that,” Mr. Butrus said.
It is unclear why the presidency stocks millions of naira in cash at the presidential villa for distribution to visitors at a time the Central Bank of Nigeria is aggressively pursuing a cashless Nigeria agenda. Mr. Jonathan’s spokespersons, Reuben Abati and Doyin Okupe, could not be reached to comment for this story. They did not answer or return calls made to their mobile telephones. After about three months of prevarications, President Jonathan finally agreed to meet with the parents of the abducted girls after he was persuaded to do so by Malala Yusoufai, the Pakistani teenager who champions the cause of girl child education.. The presidency has faced intense criticism over its handling of the kidnap of the Chibok girls who have been held by the extremist Boko Haram sect since April 14.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/featured-news/165749-president-jonathans-alleged-n100million-largesse-tears-chibok-parents-leaders-apart.html#sthash.JFzpiD6a.dpbs

The federal and state government should be proactive to inform the whole country about the dangers of this epidemic.

There should be stringent search and procedures at all ports of entry to the country with immediate effect.

But i trust our government, nothing will be done to create awareness expect to attack everyone that doesn't support their agenda.

They might even say it was caused by the opposition.

In some countries, they will even ban flights from countries where there has been a reported uncontrolled disease.

New prayer point line:

Father God, impeach all my enemies seen and unseen IJMN.

Lol...those where the days.

The whole world is watching how ineffective our government has been.
Our government cannot protect the lives of the citizens, instead they are quick to label any opposition as enemies.

These kinds of carnage cannot happen twice in the developed countries, because they take the protection and lives of the citizens very seriously. I cannot imagine that motor park has got bombed more than 3 times now.

All we get is the same sound bite from the government that they are on top of the situation, yet innocent, peace loving people are dying needlessly.

All these may be due to psychological issues - a proper health professional should be consulted.

This is very serious issue - pure wickedness and evil from man to his fellow man.

What is their sins that these guys have to die a gruesome death in the hands of their country-folks. Sad.

Why is nobody highlighting this issue?

It seems very contending issue has been settled.

It also takes a sense of maturity on the Emir to visit GEJ in Aso Rock, despite all the hell that was unleash on him few weeks ago.

Nigeria power play is not for the faint-hearted, yet some citizens are abusing, cursing and killing themselves on a daily basis.

Beautiful pictures
Babies, kids and dogs should not be left unattended.
They have to be well supervised.

Mongoose should be introduce into the Sambisa forest to flush out the landmines.

Impressive animal, they are very skillful in the art of killing other dangerous animals.

hunthsmankennel: bruv,piece of advice for you. for free. instead of buying a n alsatian for breeding, purchase a pedigree rott or boerboel. ill advice you if you have the funds, time and passion to buy an adult so the turnover time will be much shorter. go for a female less than 3 yrs and inspect her thouroughly so you will know what you are buying. a puppy will take over a year six months before you can make a kobo. and that is if all goes well as planned

Very good advice.

Twenty seven companies including sacked Aviation Minister Stella Odual’s Rainoil have been issued juicy contracts for the importation of petroleum products for the third quarter of 2014.
Rainoil’s name featured prominently on the list of companies which fleeced Nigeria in the ill famous petroleum subsidy scandal investigated by the House of Representatives and two separate panels set up by minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala before it mysteriously disappeared on the list.
Stella Odua promoted Neighbour to Neighbour, the major political advocacy group that campaigned for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and since leaving government has launched Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) presently in vigorous media campaign for Jonathan’s re-election in 2015.
In addition, leading oil and gas company, Addax Petroleum, an international oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in Nigeria, has incurred the displeasure of government, sources within the Ministry of Petroleum Resources has hinted.
Addax is owned by SINOPEC in partnership with Emeka Offor, politician/business man with very cosy relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan in particular and it was not clear if this development is a sign of a strain in the relationship.
It was gathered that Addax applied about three months ago to develop the Ofrima, Atuma, Udele and Asa oil fields but ignored the parcel of gas deposit therein, subsequently incurring the wrath of the federal government which has always insisted that Associated gas be developed alongside oil. Nigeria has always frowned at international oil companies’ proclivity to develop their oil properties to the detriment of gas. Even though it has a very weak anti-gas flaring regulations.
Federal Government has in the past chastised companies like Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and NAOC but the companies prefer to pay penalties than reduce gas flaring since the former is a cheaper option.
According to the senior executives of the ministry, government has rejected Addax Petoleum’s development program for OML 137 in the Nigerdelta.
Also, MRS Oil Nigeria was absent from the list of companies licensed to import petrol in the third quarter of this year according to Reuters quoting Nigerian industry sources.
There has been a significant reduction in the number of companies licensed to import petrol in the third quarter from 40 in the second quarter to 27. Unlike returnees such as Oando, Total, Conoil, Folawiyo Oil and Gas, Forte Oil, Techno Oil, NIPCO and Masters Energy. MRS was conspicuously missing in a development not unrelated to displeasure from ‘high places’.
The 27 companies allocated fuel import rights by the nation’s downstream regulator- Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Authority (PPPRA), are expected to import around 1.7 million tonnes for the period, as against the previous quarter’s 1.85 million tonnes.
Some of them are: A-Z, Conoil, Oando, Cybernetics, Folawiyo, Forte Oil, Hyde, Integrated, Matrix, Mettle, NIPCO, Rainoil, and Sahara. Others are Shorelink, Total, TSL, Mobil, Ascon, Dee Jones, Techno, and Masters, among others, which are licensed to import petroleum products between July and September by PPPRA.
Mobil Nigeria PLC, ExxonMobil’s petroleum marketing arm was among those licensed to import larger volumes of between from 30,000 tonnes to 120,000 tonnes.

http://economicconfidential.com/2014/07/stella-odua-others-get-fuel-import-contract/

A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam has flown to Italy after more than a month in the US embassy in Khartoum.

Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag and her family flew on an Italian government plane, accompanied by Italian minister Lapo Pistelli.

Her father is Muslim so according to Sudan's version of Islamic law she is also Muslim and cannot convert.

She was raised by her Christian mother and says she has never been Muslim.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28460383



Finally she's free from a repressive culture.

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh".

Where is the oneness in a marriage if a married lady is not prepared to change from her maiden name to husband's name?

A married lady who is not ready to love, submit and respect her husband is not that will be championing keeping of her maiden name.

Little wonder most marriages are experiencing all sorts of issues.

A man that cannot provide for his family is worse than an infidel.

A wife won't respect a man that is not financially capable to provide, sustain and protect.

Boko Haram will start to experience decline and demise as they are hell-bent on attacking the muslim leaders.
Too dangerous for them.

Too many copycats in the political arena.
It's the 'season of impeachment' as 2015 is just round the corner.
It has now become who can serve the best impeachment drama - 'i better pass my neighbouring states'.

Why are impeachments taking place in PDP controlled states?

Actually we need lots of actors in politics as they have been acting the roles in Nollywood.

Why are the 'feminists' getting emotional.

We don't need a list of dos and don'ts to make a marriage work.

Too much of these lists are destroying relationships and marriages.

Marriage is so simple, yet we always find ways to make it so complicated.

Genuine love, respect and submission from both parties are the ingredients to successful marriage.

There's no meaning to your relationship at all.
The earlier you make the right decision, the better.