₦airaland Forum

Abdul05:
Lagos didn't start with the Europeans-----They only expanded what they met... The Aworis and other Yoruba groups had built thriving settlements.. trade and leadership long before the colonial rule.

Lagos become a megacity doesn't erase its Yoruba roots, it only proves how strong those roots are.

oga every settlements in the pre colonial Nigeria had thriving settlements, trade and leadership before the Europeans arrived. But in the case of Lagos, it's urbanisation and modernisation all are attributed to the European influence which lasted for more than a century.

Gotocourt:
It's actually a good thing, local content 💯. It's to discourage import but middle men go spoil am.😥

local content can not meet up with local demands. You impose these measures when your local production is enough to satisfy the local demands but are facing competition with foreign products.

timilehin007:
Oga this is a target against the fuel importers. Group of people sabotaging the government efforts. A win for Nigeria and Dangote

Who do you think are going to pay those taxes? You think that the importers are the ones paying for it? No! It's the populace that would bare the weight of these taxes. Importer will pass this difference to the retailer, the retailer passes it to the final consumers who are me and you. Did you people not study commerce in school?

Well 2026 is going to reformat all these political sychophancies. Una eyes go clear well well by then.

Morenikeji090:
You can’t judge us we are just 10 to 15 percent living outside oduduwa regions majority of us will rather travel to aboard rather than going all places in Nigeria to invest just count us out… no matter what even if majority of people don’t do something you will see little and penny out of them that will do it… we don’t believe investing around Nigeria rather than doing it in south west… so drink your comment and eat it… we are not like you who run away from your home..

What this comment just highlighted is that other Nigerians ( Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Idoma, Ibibio etc) believe in the one Nigeria than the Yoruba. And that's why they branch out of their comfort zones to go live and invest on other regions.

integrity16:
Congratulations to the school for not judging based on tribal sentiments. Other schools would have brushed her aside and choose the next best Igbo students as the best.

This shows we still have sincere people in this country who are not nepotistic and tribalistic.

Such things only happens in Yorubaland. If it's in the South west, the school would have sidelined her and awarded the best performing indigene to avoid issues from the public.

Abdul05:
He is absolutely right..

Every great city in the world celebrates its founders ( heritages), Why should lagos be different?

Saying lagos is the yoruba united states (YUS) is just a reminder that before lagos becomes a megacity..... .It was yoruba land.

Yoruba people built it,. but they share it with everyone

So, let's thank the yoruba people

Yoruba did not build anything, it was built up by the Europeans. That was the Europeans colonial sit of power for more than a century

Kobojunkie:
I have previously responded to this. So, please follow the conversation.

No. You're downplaying the Op's feelings while telling him to take it in the chin like a good lad. Your tune will be the exact opposite if the Op was a female.

Kobojunkie:
You are just desperate to make this about you aren't you? 🤔🤔

How is a wife going no contact specifically with her mother-in-law (not all of her in-laws) and a man limiting his interaction with all his in-laws different or enough to get one considered a hypocrite?

Problem be say your kind no dey like reason before responding. 🥱🥱

How is this person not understanding that These are literally the exact same thing? they're all about cutting off with your spouse's parents. Do o need to spell it out like you're in kindergarten before you understand that they are basically the same thing here?

But mba! You expect the man to stay in communication with disrespectful in-laws but advise the woman to not take it.

Abeg shift. I know your type and how you people reason.

Kobojunkie:
You aren't making sense. 🤔🤔🤔

How is requiring that OP not cut off the in-laws -- he is literally married to their child --- same as being all over the place? 🤔

What I suggested from the go has been for OP to set up boundaries to limit -- not cut off -- communication and interaction with his in-laws, and focusing more of his energy and attention on his marriage. (Yes, part of being married is also acknowledging the parents of the one you are married to in some ways, limited as they may be.) Why is that hard for you to comprehend?

You're the one who is not making any sense here.

Cutting off from the in-laws can also be a form of setting up Boundaries. It means communications with him are off limits and he's only focused on his marriage since according to you the in-laws are free to mingle with whomever they choose, in that same vain, his is at a liberty to either mingle with the in-laws or cur off from them completely if that would help keep his marriage in tact and also protect his mental health.

You being against him cutting off from the in-laws even after saying should set boundaries is you being all over the place, you want him to endure the disrespect and take it as a man, but you're a hypocrite because below is you advising the women folk to run away from such family/marriage to protect their peace of mind

budaatum:
Funny that was. I laughed.

That person is a hypocrite and too feminine centric with his/her views.
Here below is this same person advising the wives to run/disassociate/ cut off from in-laws that gives them problems.

Chucks13:
I understand but in real sense no politician deserve the word messiah.

Thanks

I agree 💯. They were elected to deliver, so we shouldn't sing their praises when they do their job.

Kobojunkie:
1. I am not trying to invalidate the bruise to his ego here. I am simply saying out loud what needs to be, which is that they literally don't owe him anything since he is not married to them. (His marriage is instead to their daughter, and whatever business he has with them is through their daughter.) Anything else they do... their business and not really his to have a say or control over.

2. Does it only apply to me? Well, advise him to go harass them in their home for taking money and gifts from someone whom he seemingly considers a rival, and see what happens.

3. If they had kept their collecting of gifts and money from the ex, but OP had mistakenly found out anyway, either through a neighbor or someone on the outside, do you truly believe OP's feelings would have been a lot less hurt by it all then?

4. Drawing boundaries to ensure he protects himself from such situations going forward is always a good place to start; however, seeking to cut them off completely may likely cause more damage to his marriage than to them.

You see how all over the place your arguments are? Earlier you said it's none of his business what the in-laws do since he's not married to th but to Their daughter and according to you the Op should face his marriage and leave the in-laws to do whatever they like as it's Their right to associate with whomever they choose. But here now you're against the Op cutting off the in-laws and focusing on his marriage as he's not married to the in-laws after all. You want him to maintain contacts with the shameless in-laws who disrespect him by robbing their greed on his face, but you don't want him to react to the disrespect from the in-laws.

flokii:
@OP That your wife no get sense.. she is even open about her unfaithfulness. This world don spoil.
Okafor's law will make that Ex to have sex with your wife whenever and however he likes. the ex fit tie your wife hands and legs to ceiling fan dey knack am.. he dey press money steady.

As in.... He's watering the ground for when he comes back to the country, knacking go dey that's for sure. Don't be surprised that it will even be the parents that would tell the wife to and see the ex to show appreciation.

Eniitankorede:
If they have no children between them there is no reason why they should still be contacting each other, irrespective of whether they broke up peacefully or not. You don’t joke with matters of love, it can spark anytime. Cut off the contact between them and tell her to move on. If you do that the other man will likely stop sending gifts as the distance will prevent that.

she will not cut off contact but would instead keep it away from the husband. The wife and family would become discreet with the communication with the ex. Op should accept the fact that he married into a shameless family and start withdraw whatever emotional attachment he has on that marriage.

Double0h7:
My conclusion? I don’t think you read my comment or comprehended it. I said THEY (his in-laws) are sending him a message the message to up his hustle.

I don't think you have a good grasp of compression. You're making a conclusive statement by saying "THEY (his in-laws) are sending him a message..." if you had said" THEY might be.." or "could it be that they are..." Then that would be an inconclusive statement

budaatum:
I do agree with you regarding the op and his marriage, and I think he should learn to mind his own business and keep his nose out of the business of his in-laws.

the ex is grooming the wife and her shameless parents by sending them money. The ex and the wife still holds very deep communication and whenever that ex lands in Nigeria that communication is going to go beyond quite Deep . How magnanimous is this ex that he still sends money to the parents of an ex girlfriend? I'm sure he also sends money to his own relatives and wife's relatives too right?

Op should come to the realisation that he married into a shameless family and begin to remove any emotional attachment he has on that marriage and just focus on fulfilling his duties as a husband/father as the case might be. He should rather transfer his emotions to somewhere else if he wants to live a long and enjoyable life.

Kobojunkie:
You mean maybe it was to get him to do better in terms of giving them gifts and money?

Can you imagine this sort of mentality

Kobojunkie:
1. They didn't set any such boundary, as is apparent from OP's reveal.

2. Did OP state that his wife does not respect him? Why assume disrespect when OP clearly did not state that he was disrespected by his wife in any of this?

The OP have clearly said that he feels deeply disrespected by this, you're just busy defending rubbish here.

qanda:
Discouraging fuel imports is a good development. It will give investors confidence to build refineries. BUA and others who are already building a Refinery will try to complete their project ASAP.

Nigerians will benefit from the availability of multiple refining facilities in Nigeria.

Are we benefiting from the availablity of multiple cement companies in Nigeria?

Tayorshd87:
enough of reading long epistle always abeg we need a shortfal of PMS price in the country and pay less tax 😡

Even as at that we need a positive change if the tax commences or else I will lead the protest to Abuja 😡😡

I love Tinubu so much but if this tax can work with changes then he is the best .
But if tax works without change in the environment society or anything hmmmm also rock go hot oo 😢

This is Nigeria, deep down you know that no positive change is going to happen except for the increase in Federal allocation to State governments, increase in salaries for the legislature and more cars to their garage.

COMPAQ:
The person to demand something in return for your taxes is you. If Sowore requests 1mln man march to NASS for good governance, I'm sure you'll use that Saturday to be watchhing Netflix.

Nigeria's are not willing to do what it takes.

Mind you i'm not advocating for riots or looting o. Just 1,000,000 people going to occupy NASS and Aso Rock and demanding for good governance, reduction in estacode, reduction is wasteful spending, reduction in corruption, reduction in using our money to buy Landcruisers etc will shake the establishment to their core. Do you know what it means for 1mln people to gather? Even 100k!!

Oh.. there's definitely going to be riots because the people you're protesting against would without a doubt order the military and police to shoot and harass the protesters, people will get angry and loose it, and it will be emdsars 2.0.
However, that shouldn't dissuade us from protesting and demanding for efficient and good governance from the politicians.

Chucks13:
I'm honestly sick of reading this prophet says this, that apostle say that in reference to Abia.

Why can't these people focus on their altar business, why all the time diving into politics?

Pls the word "messiah" have be bastardised so terribly in Nigeria to tthe extend the word lost its value and relevance.

Messiah literally means a saviour or a deliverer, someone who delivers the oppressed from the hands of the oppressor

Almunjid:
I just asked Google this question, "When was Sol Invictus born?" and this is an excerpt or part of what Google provided: "The birth of the Roman god Sol Invictus was celebrated on December 25, 274 CE, when Emperor Aurelian established it as a formal feast day... The adoption of December 25 as the birthdate for Jesus is a subject of discussion, with some scholars suggesting it was chosen to coincide with the established pagan festival." This indicates that the celebration of Sol Invictus’s birthdate on December 25 was later shifted to commemorate the birth of Jesus after Christianity was adopted.

Regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses’ claims of 50,000 errors in the Bible, if you choose to disbelieve that, I respect your view. However, one thing is certain: Roman pagan doctrines have infiltrated Christianity. If that is undisputed, then it follows that the scriptures, having passed through many hands over time, may have been corrupted or misinterpreted.

From my own study, I have observed inconsistencies in the Bible—some of which have been corrected in newer Bible versions. For example, there is the issue with Jehoiachin’s age: 2 Kings 24:8 says he was 18 when he became king, but 2 Chronicles 36:9 states he was 8. Eight or eighteen? This is just one example among many. I believe these contradictory verses are human errors, not divine ones, but we cannot deny their existence.

I once debated a friend, saying: If the Holy Spirit is needed to understand and interpret the Bible, then what about those who translated it from Greek to English? Did they have the Holy Spirit? Consider how many errors might have been introduced in translation, and the number of doctrines that may have come from those misinterpretations. Much of what we know today—or perhaps all of it—is based on their understanding and interpretation. These translators were linguists, not necessarily biblical scholars. As Jeremiah 8:8 says: "How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie."


Peace!

You asked Google? How about you read books or studies by actual scholars on the subject? Google will give you a popular talking points but not actually scholarly research on most subjects. According to scholars who have researched on this sol invictus festival, it was never a one day celebration, it happened year round on different times, and it was not 25th until Christianity began to rise and get popular. The pagans themselves were the ones who moved it to 25th December to counter the influence of Christianity at that time. I myself have done extensive research on this subject in particular, and I have seen how some pagans tried to copy Christian worship and festival dates to counter it's influence and prevent proselytism, especially in the case of sol invictus, saturnalia, Mithras and Dionysius ( all pagan festivals that later adopted 25 December due to Christianity) .

Yes pagan practices, not just from Rome, have sipped into Christianity over time, but that doesn't mean that the scriptures were corrupted or influenced by these pagan practices. For instance you can read the entire of New testament and won't see a single pagan worship in it. So how come the New testament, the gospels are free of pagan influences but Morden Christian practices aren't?
The short answer is that Man will always deviate to man made traditions over time, man made traditions that consolidate "Power".

One of the things I usually encounter when I debate about the authenticity of the Bible is that most people don't understand what the bible really is, how it was compiled, how old some of the books are and in what form it existed ( and still exists) before it was compiled into the form that we know it today.

In the issue you raised about the record of Jehoiachin, let me begin by saying that not books in the old testament were divinely inspired. The books of kings (1 and 2) and chronicles, judges are just historical record books of the Hebrews. So there's expected to be inconsistencies in it, there would be embellishments of facts and errors as is expected from an ancient historical record books of an equally ancient people. You will find all these in the historical records of the Sumerians, The Greeks, Egyptians, Akkadians, Chinese, Assyrians etc.

And also , the old testament books as you know it has been existing in that form before the birth of Jesus in 4th AD as the Hebrew manuscripts or Tanakh. The old testament is literally the a direct copy of the Tanakh but with some books rearranged. So the church can not change or corrupt the books of the Old testament because the original document is still very much in existence and easily acquired if you want to get a copy. The Tanakh/ old testament is just Judaism, you give a Jewish practitioner a copy of the Old testament and apart from the rearrangement of some books, he/she will find nothing amiss except for mistranslation of words or names to English or anglicised Latin, but the core subjects still remains as it is.

Those who translated the books of the bible from Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek were linguistics under the supervision of scholars. The oldest new testament parchment dated around 100-125CE is still on display in Manchester at the John Rayland library. The oldest complete copy of the New Testament is the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century Greek Bible manuscript that dates to the mid-fourth century which is still in display at the Sinai monastery, there's another one of similar age is the Codex vaticanus . These works were originally written in Greek not some ancient language that may have gone extinct and difficult to transcribe, whatever errors — if at all there's any — is not a doctrinal altering errors.

I think that the notion that one needs the holy spirit to be able to interpret the contents of the bible is nons£ns£ though. This all was started by the church in the medieval period when they wanted to prevent people from finding out the contents of the bible, because they feared that gaining knowledge of what's written in the book would expose some of the fake doctrines which the church used in accumulating power to themselves and holding down the people. The church burned anyone who was found with the copy of the bible during those dark ages, it was the invention of the printing press that broke the church's monopoly on bible ownership and knowledge of its contents. Give no ear to anyone who tells you that you need the holy spirit to interpret the bible.

condralbedez:
Mtcheew... Is the Pentecostals churches and thier daddy G. Os that's doing what the apostles did?
The apostles did got married, they didn't acquire private jets.

Both the Catholic and pentecostal churches are birds of feathers.

erad:
Wetin concern you?

Whether you like it or not, Catholics are a major history of Christianity. Without the battles Catholicism fought, a lot of pentecostal churches today won't exist.

I don't care about any of you but learn to stop trying to make yourself look better than others, you're not God. Even the bible asks you not to judge, but nah una sabi Bible pass. Hypocrites.

Being a part of the history of Christianity doesn't mean much my dear. You are talking about war fought by the church, do you have any idea how many innocent people the Catholic church burned to death just because they owned a copy of the bible or they were scientifically curious? Do you have any idea how much blood that the Catholic church have on their hands? How many invasions they sanctioned? Who do you think sanctioned the colonisation of America which led to the massacre of the native?

And why should a church wage wars in the first place?

Penguin2:
Why don’t you start by naming the idols that Catholics worship?

Second, Mary lived with the Apostles, why did they need to pray to who they were living with? Maybe you should tell us if the Apostles ever disrespected her or called her an envelope like your theology teaches.

Third, by pray to the dead, you mean saints? So you do not recognize the difference between you and the people who lived with Jesus and suffered martyrdom in some cases to propagate this faith you are now forming opinion on? Like, what makes you think you or your pastor should share same pride of place with Apostle Paul?

And to Purgatory, do you believe that God will send a woman who stole bread 🍞 from a supermarket to feed her hungry children to the same place He would send murderers and cultists?

oh and by the way, blowing down to an image is the same as worshipping that image, and the Catholic are guilty of that

Penguin2:
Why don’t you start by naming the idols that Catholics worship?

Second, Mary lived with the Apostles, why did they need to pray to who they were living with? Maybe you should tell us if the Apostles ever disrespected her or called her an envelope like your theology teaches.

Third, by pray to the dead, you mean saints? So you do not recognize the difference between you and the people who lived with Jesus and suffered martyrdom in some cases to propagate this faith you are now forming opinion on? Like, what makes you think you or your pastor should share same pride of place with Apostle Paul?

And to Purgatory, do you believe that God will send a woman who stole bread 🍞 from a supermarket to feed her hungry children to the same place He would send murderers and cultists?

Nobody disrespects Mary but no one shold pray to her either as she's just as much a dead human as everyone else who has no power to solicit on anyone's behalf. Not even Jesus gave her such reverence or authority when on earth and you can clearly see that in Mathew 12,46-50 "46 Jesus was still talking to the people when his mother and brothers arrived. They stood outside, asking to speak with him. 47 So one of the people there said to him, “Look, your mother and brothers are standing outside, and they want to speak with you.”[b]

48 Jesus answered, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” 49 Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “Look! Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants is my brother, my sister, and my mother.”

Recognising the saints doesn't mean you should pray to them as they have no power to do anything for you at that point, they're going to be facing judgement like everyone else. And what do you mean by share same pride of place? Everyone is equal in the sight of God, the moment you see yourself as much more than the other person then you shall not be a partaker of paradise. That's just how it is biblically.

And I don't understand these practice of asking for another individual dead or alive to intercede on your behalf, are you saying that Christ's love is not sufficient to make him grant your own prayers? Or that he can't hear you unless someone else whispers directly to his ears or that His hands are too short reach out to you? Are you saying that Christ's heart is so stone cold that you need an intercessor to plead on your behalf in order to soften his heart grant your prayers?
Do you not believe that Christ is the Way , the truth and the Life and that he loved the world so much that he was willing to die to save the world? Because These are all what you're implying the moment you seek for an intercessor to intercede on your behalf

Royem:
The Apostles also didn't pay tithe, where una see una own frm, probably from old testament... kettle calling pot black.. hypocrite

Tithing is not a Christian practice rather a Jewish religious practice which is tied to the old covenant which God had with the Hebrews, which now is superceded by the covenant with Christ.

Almunjid:
The term "Roman Catholic" is not used without reason. The Roman Catholic Church is heavily influenced by Roman paganism. For example, they changed the birthday of Jesus to coincide with the feast of their deity, the Roman god Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun). They also shifted the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, the day they worship their sun god. This influence has caused Roman Catholicism to resemble idol worship, which is contrary to true Christianity.

Regarding images of Jesus and Mary, the Bible clearly states in Exodus 20:4-5: "You shall not make for yourself an idol of any kind... You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God." However, Catholics created images of Jesus and Mary and bow down to them in worship.

The Catholic Church has negatively influenced other Christian denominations by introducing these images/pictures, causing believers to focus on them during prayer and attribute supernatural powers to them. They have also influenced many Christians, including apostolic churches, to celebrate the wrong birthday of Jesus and observe Sunday instead of Saturday as the Sabbath.

Overall, Christianity requires a thorough reform because its teachings have been corrupted and many non-biblical doctrines have been added. For instance, the Jehovah’s Witnesses highlighted in their Awake magazine (dated September 8, 1957) that there are reportedly "50,000 Errors in the Bible." This is why they produced their own translation to ensure accuracy. If the Bible contained so many errors, it would result in countless doctrines within Christianity that are not from God. Today, we see many Christians, including those in apostolic churches, deviating from the true teachings of Jesus. Many have been led astray. May God guide and keep us on the right path.


Shalom!

There's is not evident that sol invictus was on the 25 of December, and there was no Sun god that was worshipped on a Sunday specifically In Rome. In fact, Rome was a polytheistic society, they never had a single religion that everyone followed up until 380 AD when it was made the official religion by Emperor Theodosius.

The Jehova witness are as heretic as they come. 50,000 errors in the Bible is a bull claim especially coming from the Jehovah's witness who preached heretic gospels, they couldn't even name a single error last time I checked. Please go read about the history of the Jehovah's witness.

Apart from all the above, I agree with every other thing you said

ACRI:
Face your own race @op. You are not the custodian of Christian or Apostle's values

Run your race with fear and trembling, focus on your journey...you are not a judge and you will never be..

Stop creating dissenting views in the body of Christ, It is only Christians that does this. A house divided against itself will fall.

There are the doctrines of the church embedded in traditions and customs, it is absolutely non of your business how each denomination choose to worship God. If, however God gave you the mandate to be the judge pls continue

The people creating dissenting views in the body of Christ are the ones going contrary to what he preached, which the OP is rightly calling out. The body of Christ does not care about denomination, churches or Daddy GOs but rather the Truth and Love. The Catholic church and Many of these Pentecostal churches have massively deviated from the truth of the bible and should be called out for it.