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chamboy: It is the chief of defence staff that will decide that and he is from NW Ilorin vice admiral Ola ibrahim

bakynes: SW+Core North Vs SS+SE with MB votes shared btw both parties.
Note* No president in Nigeria can be relected in a free and fair election without the North supporting him due to their population. The last election, we saw the whole South United that made Jonathan the President today. With the SW backing out, Surely Jonathan cannot win a free and fair election,his available option which I foresee in 2015 is outright rigging of the elections and use of the Military Power. But again one will wonder if possibly the miliatry will disobey orders from the president, let's also remember the chief of Army staff is from the SE. Brace yourselves pple for a bloody 2015.

yommyuk: Psalm 115:17–18
The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any who go down into silence; but as for us, we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forever. Praise the Lord!

The Bible exhorts every area of creation and every kind of creature to praise the Lord. The Bible exhorts the heavens, the earth, the sea, the forests, the rocks – there is nothing that should not praise the Lord.

It speaks about all kinds of creatures: flying creatures, creatures in the sea, crawling creatures, cattle, and wild beasts. It speaks about all the states of the human race: kings, princes, young men, old men, maidens, children – all are exhorted to praise the Lord. In fact, there is only just one category of people that do not praise the Lord. You know who that is? The dead. Only the dead do not praise the Lord.

My dear friend, if you do not praise the Lord, you know what your problem is? You are one of the dead. Not necessarily physically dead, but spiritually dead. Come alive! Begin to praise the Lord. The more you praise the Lord, the more joy and spiritual life you will experience. Begin to praise Him right now.

God bless

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aiyeboy: LAST sunday was wonderful in my church, as the pastor told the who congregation NO PREACHING TODAY..............
he told us to open to gen 3, and we should read then the men should defend adam, that he he is not to be blamed,women to defend eve that she is not to be blamed and the youth also should defend the serpent that ITS not guilty so guys i guess its cool if we also trash it out here.......
to me i beleive the serpent wasn't guilty because IT was just carrying out its normal daily activities, and u would help note in that chapter that IT never told eve to eat it all IT said was if u eat from it u shall know the truth.
so pals lets rub minds together and bring one out as the most guilty.
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The Bible is an extraordinary work of literature, and it makes some astonishing claims. It records the details of the creation of the universe, the origin of life, the moral law of God, the history of man’s rebellion against God, and the historical details of God’s work of redemption for all who trust in His Son. Moreover, the Bible claims to be God’s revelation to mankind. If true, this has implications for all aspects of life: how we should live, why we exist, what happens when we die, and what our meaning and purpose is. But how do we know if the claims of the Bible are true?

Some Typical Answers
A number of Christians have tried to answer this question. Unfortunately, not all of those answers have been as cogent as we might hope. Some answers make very little sense at all. Others have some merit but fall short of proving the truth of the Bible with certainty. Let’s consider some of the arguments that have been put forth by Christians.

A Subjective Standard
Some Christians have argued for the truth of the Scriptures by pointing to the changes in their own lives that belief in the God who inspired the Bible has induced. Receiving Jesus as Lord is a life-changing experience that brings great joy. A believer is a “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17). However, this change does not in and of itself prove the Bible is true. People might experience positive feelings and changes by believing in a position that happens to be false.
At best, a changed life shows consistency with the Scriptures. We would expect a difference in attitudes and actions given that the Bible is true. Although giving a testimony is certainly acceptable, a changed life does not (by itself) demonstrate the truth of the Scriptures. Even an atheist might argue that his belief in atheism produces feelings of inner peace or satisfaction. This does not mean that his position is true.

By Faith
When asked how they know that the Bible is true, some Christians have answered, “We know the Bible is true by faith.” While that answer may sound pious, it is not very logical, nor is it a correct application of Scripture. Faith is the confident belief in something that you cannot perceive with your senses (Hebrews 11:1). So when I believe without observation that the earth’s core is molten, I am acting on a type of faith. Likewise, when I believe in God whom I cannot directly see, I am acting on faith. Don’t misunderstand. We should indeed have faith in God and His Word. But the “by faith” response does not actually answer the objection that has been posed—namely, how we know that the Bible is true.
Since faith is a belief in something unseen, the above response is not a good argument. “We know by faith” is the equivalent of saying, “We know by believing.” But clearly, the act of believing in something doesn’t necessarily make it true. A person doesn’t really know something just by believing it. He simply believes it. So the response is essentially, “We believe because we believe.” While it is true that we believe, this answer is totally irrelevant to the question being asked. It is a non-answer. Such a response is not acceptable for a person who is a follower of Christ. The Bible teaches that we are to be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks a reason of the hope that is within us (1 Peter 3:15). Saying that we have faith is not the same as giving a reason for that faith.

Begging the Question
Some have cited 2 Timothy 3:16 as proof that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God. This text indicates that all Scripture is inspired by God (or “God-breathed”) and useful for teaching. That is, every writing in the Bible is a revelation from God that can be trusted as factually true. Clearly, if the Bible is given by revelation of the God of truth, then it can be trusted at every point as an accurate depiction. The problem with answering the question this way is that it presupposes that the verse itself is truthful—which is the very claim at issue.
... But we need some additional information if we are to escape a vicious circle.

Textual Consistency and Uniqueness
Another argument for the truthfulness of the Bible concerns its uniqueness and internal consistency. The Bible is remarkably self-consistent, despite having been written by more than 40 different writers over a timespan of about 2,000 years. God’s moral law, man’s rebellion against God’s law, and God’s plan of salvation are the continuing themes throughout the pages of Scripture. This internal consistency is what we would expect if the Bible really is what it claims to be—God’s revelation.
... This is consistent with the claim that the Bible is the Word of God, but it does not decisively prove the claim.

External Evidence

Some Christians have argued for the truth of Scripture on the basis of various lines of external evidence. For example, archaeological discoveries have confirmed many events of the Bible. The excavation of Jericho reveals that the walls of this city did indeed fall as described in the book of Joshua.3 Indeed, some passages of the Bible, which critics once claimed were merely myth, have now been confirmed archeologically. For example, the five cities of the plain described in Genesis 14:2 were once thought by secular scholars to be mythical, but ancient documents have been found that list these cities as part of ancient trade routes.4
... They have suggested that the predictive prophetic passages were written after the fact, much later than the text itself would indicate. Examples of apparent scientific insight in the Bible are chalked up to coincidence.
Moreover, there is something inappropriate about using secular science to judge the claims of the Bible. As with archeological claims, what constitutes a scientific fact is often subject to the bias of the interpreter. Some people would claim that particles-to-people evolution is a scientific fact. Although creationists would disagree, we must concede that what some people think is good science does not always coincide with the Bible.
.... Using the less-certain to judge the more-certain just doesn’t make sense. At best, such things merely show consistency.

The Standard of Standards
The above lines of evidence are certainly consistent with the premise that the Bible is true. Many people have no doubt found such evidence quite convincing. Yet, we must admit that none of the above lines of evidence quite proves that the Bible must be the inerrant Word of God. Critics have their counterarguments to all of the above. If we are to know for certain that the Bible is true, we will need a different kind of argument—one that is absolutely conclusive and irrefutable. In all the above cases, we took as an unstated premise that there are certain standards by which we judge how likely something is true. When we stop to consider what these standards are, we will see that the standards themselves are proof that the Bible is true.

Putting it another way, only the Bible can make sense of the standards by which we evaluate whether or not something is true. One such set of standards are the laws of logic. We all know that a true claim cannot contradict another true claim. That would violate a law of logic: the law of non-contradiction. The statements “The light is red” and “The light is not red” cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense. Laws of logic thus represent a standard by which we can judge certain truth claims. Moreover, all people seem to “know” laws like the law of non-contradiction. We all assume that such laws are the same everywhere and apply at all times without exception. But why is this? How do we know such things?

If we consider the biblical worldview, we find that we can make sense of the laws of logic. The Bible tells us that God’s mind is the standard for all knowledge (Colossians 2:3). Since God upholds the entire universe and since He is beyond time, we would expect that laws of logic apply everywhere in the universe and at all times. There can never be an exception to a law of logic because God’s mind is sovereign over all truth. We can know laws of logic because we are made in God’s image and are thus able to think in a way that is consistent with His nature (Genesis 1:27). So, when we take the Bible as our worldview, we find that laws of logic make sense.
But if we don’t accept the Bible as true, we are left without a foundation for laws of logic. How could we know (apart from God) that laws of logic work everywhere? After all, none of us have universal knowledge. We have not experienced the future nor have we travelled to distant regions of the universe. Yet we assume that laws of logic will work in the future as they have in the past and that they work in the distant cosmos as they work here. But how could we possibly know that apart from revelation from God?
Arguing that laws of logic have worked in our past experiences is pointless—because that’s not the question. The question is: how can we know that they will work in the future or in regions of space that we have never visited? Only the Christian worldview can make sense of the universal, exception-less, unchanging nature of laws of logic. Apart from the truth revealed in the Bible, we would have no reason to assume that laws of logic apply everywhere at all times, yet we all do assume this. Only the Christian has a good reason to presume the continued reliability of logic. The non-Christian does not have such a reason in his own professed worldview, and so he is being irrational: believing something without a good reason. The unbeliever has only “blind faith” but the Christian’s faith in the Bible makes knowledge possible.
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aiyeboy: LAST sunday was wonderful in my church, as the pastor told the who congregation NO PREACHING TODAY..............
he told us to open to gen 3, and we should read then the men should defend adam, that he he is not to be blamed,women to defend eve that she is not to be blamed and the youth also should defend the serpent that ITS not guilty so guys i guess its cool if we also trash it out here.......
to me i beleive the serpent wasn't guilty because IT was just carrying out its normal daily activities, and u would help note in that chapter that IT never told eve to eat it all IT said was if u eat from it u shall know the truth.
so pals lets rub minds together and bring one out as the most guilty.
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Polio: Coming from a dweeb with a piss poor command of the english language ... grammatical blunders everywhere...

Another brainless fool swathed like a tse tse fly!

Oi, a bit of lesson for you, "proven" not "proved" ... Where were you during elementary english classes?

Fuc..king illiterate!

Polio: Coming from a dweeb with a piss poor command of the english language ... grammatical blunders everywhere...

Another brainless fool swathed like a tse tse fly!

Oi, a bit of lesson for you, "proven" not "proved" ... Where were you during elementary english classes?

Fuc..king illiterate!

Polio: Try me... fuc..king pleb!

3rd generation breed of a brainless clan!!!!

paranorman: First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank), Zenith Bank Plc, United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), Access Bank Plc, Skye Bank Plc, Ecobank Nigeria and Diamond Bank Plc have been designated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as “too big to fail”, owing to the fact that their failure could pose a systemic risk to the banking industry and the larger economy.

The eight banks alone account for 75 per cent of the banking sector in terms of earnings, profitability assets, customer deposits and branch networks.

The CBN, it was learnt, has therefore adopted a more robust regulatory regime to monitor and scrutinise the eight banks, in order to ensure that they are healthy.

The central bank has also asked the eight banks to increase their capital base in order to give them a buffer against internal and exogenous shocks.

Confirming this development, Deputy Governor (Operations), CBN, Mr. Tunde Lemo, described the financial institutions as systemically important because of their size.

Lemo pointed out that any bank that accounts for five per cent of the banking system is systemically important.

“What that means is that we have to take a closer look at them. It doesn’t mean that they are weak, it is just that we have to focus more attention on them because, God forbid, if something happens to any of them, it may affect the entire system,” Lemo said.

Asked about the capital base that the respective banks are expected to have, the CBN deputy governor said: “It is not that they were asked to raise their capital base, it is just that when an institution is designated as systemically important, it is required to have more capital.”

For Zenith Bank, its recently released results for nine months ending September 30, 2013 showed that its profit after tax stood at N64 billion with loans and advances of N1.1 trillion. The bank also reported gross earnings of N255 billion at the end of September 2013, up by 11 per cent from the N229 billion recorded in the corresponding period in 2012.

Zenith Bank’s total market capitalisation on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) stood at N675.024 billion yesterday.

Also, GTBank’s profit after tax stood at N69.24 billion at the end of September 2013, as against N63.734 billion earned in the same period in 2012. GTBank’s total assets also stood at N1.875 trillion, compared to the N1.73 trillion as at December 2012. Its share price on the NSE closed at N25.99 per share yesterday, giving it a market capitalisation of N764.916 billion.

In the same vein, UBA’s unaudited results for the nine months ending September 30, 2013 also revealed that its profit after tax climbed to N37.37 billion. With a market capitalisation of N257.255 billion on the NSE, its share price closed at N7.80 per share.

For Access Bank, its recently released unaudited nine-month results showed gross earnings of N154 billion at the end of September 2013. Its profit before tax also stood at N35 billion. Access Bank’s market capitalisation on the NSE was N213.269 billion yesterday, while its shares closed at N9.32 per share.

Skye Bank Plc’s gross earnings rose to N102 billion at the end of September 2013, while its profit after tax stood at N11.650 billion.
Diamond Bank also posted a profit before tax of N25.6 billion, while its total assets stood at N1.377 trillion at the end of September 2013.

First Bank of Nigeria Limited is yet to release its third quarter results because of its holding company structure. [Thisday]

Jesus is usually portrayed as a light-skinned, blond-haired, blue-eyed, tall, handsome Caucasian with a high forehead and an alpha male bearing. This is such a stalwart icon of Western culture that to suggest anything contrary or corrective to that image is tantamount to heresy. (i) But this is most unlikely to be how he really looked . In an attempt to set the record straight, I am here looking at what his appearance and early life would probably have been like. It’s no use trying to get close to Jesus (assuming that’s what you do want) if you’ve got a totally false image of him in your head to start with. We are of course dealing with probabilities here, not proofs.

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(1) “Palestinian Jews of late antiquity were small people by our standards. The ancient pagan writer Celsus, when describing Jesus, said ‘His body was little, ugly and undistinguished.’ The Christian scholar Origen, replying to Celsus, does not deny the charge which had earlier been referred to by a number of other Christian authors including Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria (ca.200 CE) .” (ii)

A Discovery Channel special utilizing the latest in forensic technology reconstructed what Jesus might have looked like. The result fomented an outcry. Columnist Kathleen Parker was so distraught that she fretted that the Jesus she knew as a child was being replaced by “the kind of guy who wouldn’t make it through airport security.” (i)

Sounding like an american cop describing a suspect, one modern writer confidently states Jesus was “five foot five to five foot seven tall and weighed 130 to 170 pounds.” (iii)

Confirmation of his smallness of stature is suggested in Mary Magdalene’s conversation with the man she thought was the gardener at the tomb “Have you carried him away? Tell me where you have laid him and I will lift him up.” (iv)

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(2) One 2nd century writer described Jesus as being bald, but a contemporary said he wasn’t, so I guess they cancel each other out.
You have to read her book to get the full context for the next statement: “Jesus would normally have had the long hair and beard of a Nazirite, a jew who had taken an ascetic vow; for Essenes it also indicated a celibate state. But during the times when he fulfilled the rules of the dynastic order he would have shaved his beard and cut his hair short.” (v)

(3) As a jewish boy, Jesus would have been circumcised 8 days after birth. This was the requirement laid on the people by the covenant with Abraham (Gen. 17) (xi)

(4) Living in a rural peasant community in the eastern Mediterranean Jesus was probably exposed to a merciless sun for hours on end, i.e. he would have been dark. (I’ve seen building labourers in Italy whose bare backs were as dark as many Africans).

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(5) When I was in charge of Jewish Assembly in a boys’ school in east London, the pupils would always finish off with a prayer called ”The Shema” which they recited in hebrew from memory, after first fishing around in their blazer pockets for their kippas (skull caps). (vi)
As a practising Jew, Jesus would also have been expected to say this prayer twice a day, on getting up and on going to bed; whether in Hebrew or in Aramaic I don’t know, but probably in the latter as that would have been the language used in his local synagogue. (vii)
The Shema is Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (viii)

“Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.
Blessed be the name of his glorious kingdom for ever and ever.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be in your heart.
And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up.
And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and bind them on your foreheads.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.”

Jesus, although probably unable to read the Hebrew scriptures, lived by Aramaic targums (paraphrases of the Torah) he had heard in the synagogue, and by ethical maxims such as Lev. 19:18, the only verse he ever quoted. (xii, p.151) It says “Do not seek revenge or seek a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbour as yourself.”

(6) Jesus and other kids in Nazareth were possibly taught Torah in the synagogue, (although note that Aslan (xiii) claims Nazareth itself didn’t have either a synagogue or a school), and although as an adult he is said to have preached and argued there, scholars seem to think that Jesus and all his disciples (like practically everyone else outside the ruling elite at that time) were not well educated and were illiterate or at best, semi-literate. The most thorough examination of literacy in Palestine, by Prof Catherine Hezser, shows probably only 3% of Jews in Palestine were literate at the time of Jesus. These would be the people who could read and maybe write their names and copy words. Far fewer could compose sentences, paragraphs, chapters and books; and they would have been the urban elites. John chapter 8 describes Jesus writing on the ground but this passage was not originally in the gospel of John but was added later.(ix)

(7) Descendant of an “illegal” immigrant? “The whole Bible is filled with people who are outsiders. Ruth “the Moabitess” (code for “outsider”) is shown hospitality and eventually some fine romance by Boaz, whose cross-cultural marriage is a part of the genealogy that leads up to Jesus (Ruth 2-4) So Jesus had an “illegal” great grandmother.” (x)

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( If his parents really fled into Egypt and Jesus was born in a manger in a stable far from home, while Herod slaughtered the innocent, that made him a refugee of the sort all too common in the world today.

(9) Jesus never ate pork or shellfish, as Jews considered such foods to be impure and abominable (Lev. 11; Deut. 14) No bacon sarnies then! (that’s English slang for a sandwich)

(10) Jesus worked as a tekton or carpenter-cum-builder. Talmudic tradition, perhaps with oblique reference to Jesus, associates carpenters with adultery or fornication.(xii) The Romans used the term tekton as slang for any uneducated or illiterate peasant, and Jesus was very likely both. (xiii p.34) There wouldn’t have been enough work for him as a labourer in Nazareth so he probably helped with the rebuilding going on in the city of Sepphoris a few km away. Scorsese in his film “The Last temptation of Christ” shows him busily making crosses for the Romans to crucify dissidents on! Maybe he repaired fishermen’s boats down at the Sea of Galilee, too. Justin (in Oakman ref xii, p.69) reported that Jesus made ploughs and yokes.

(11) Jesus was a bastard and thus of questionable status within Israel. As Oakman puts it (xii, p.68, 151) “the peasant reality of Jesus’ origin is quite crude” and “the common tradition behind the birth stories of Matthew and Luke attest to the illegitimacy of Jesus.” The specific circumstances of the conception by Mary were most likely rape, fornication or prostitution. It is possible the historical Mary (as a widow or through debt) had been forced into degraded work such as prostitution c.f. John 8:41 “‘We are not illegitimate children,’ they protested.’The only father we have is God himself.’” and Thomas 105 “Jesus said ‘Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the child of a LovePeddler.’”
It is interesting to speculate that Jesus’ compassion for widows and prostitutes had something to do with his own origins. (xii)
“Mark 6:3 by referring only to Jesus as “son of Mary” suggests that Jesus’ family situation is unusual in a patriarchal culture (consider that Jesus’ most immediate associates Simon and James and John are identified by their fathers: son of Jonah/John or sons of Zebedee.). For whatever reason, Jesus seems to have been a fatherless child. Most likely, under the stigma of illegitimate birth and without land to work, he was compelled to find a trade. He entered the ranks of peasant artisans and as a tekton travelled to where the work was.” (Oakman ref. xii p.68)

(12) Dan Brown would have us all believe that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered children. A more convincing approach to this contentious topic is to consider that everyone had a wife. It would have been almost unthinkable for a thirty year old male in Jesus’ time not to have one. Celibacy was an extremely rare phenomenon in first century Palestine. (xiii)

(13) Jesus was not skilled at languages: like the overwhelming majority of Jews in his time he would have only had the most rudimentary grasp of Hebrew, barely enough to understand the scriptures when they were read to them at a synagogue, and certainly not enough to communicate with – even in its most colloquial form. The lower classes like him spoke a local dialect of Aramaic, plus a smattering of Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman Empire. (xiii) This might have been needed for negotiating contracts with his customers.

(14) Jesus’ name is ‘Joshua’ in Hebrew; Yesus in Greek, and ‘Yeshua’, or ‘Yeshu’ for short, in his mother tongue Aramaic. ‘Jesus’ is a latinization.

(15) Men’s clothing at that time consisted of 2 garments: a long shirt or tunic topped by a coat or cloak. In a parable Jesus talks of giving away the under garment as well as the top one. This is a joke. It would leave the donor starkers, and would embarrass the recipient. He is trying to make a point in a dramatic way. (Mt 5:40)

(16) The feeding story (Mk 6:38-42) depends on knowing that 5 loaves and 2 fishes represent approximately a daily subsistence meal for a family. (xii p.72)

(17) Everyday resistance was an automatic reflex for the oppressed people of Galilee. (xii p.72) “The prosaic but constant struggle between the peasantryand those who seek to extract labour, food, taxes, rents and interest from them. Jesus may have taken part in forms of resistance such as foot dragging, dissimulation, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander, arson, sabotage, and so forth.”



(18) Jesus’ areas of expertise, like those of any peasant of the time living in the Eastern Mediterranean, appear to have been agrarian. As a child he would have helped in the fields. His parables show an intimate familiarity with agrarian activities – sowing, harvesting, granaries, vineyards, orchards,estate agriculture,- and agrarian personnel – landlords, estate overseers, temporary labourers, agrarian conflicts. As a tekton (labourer/carpenter) Jesus’ experiences became wider than those of the village alone.

3.3 The African Roots

There are several theories about the origins of Pentecostalism (Robeck 1993:166), but the generation of the movement from a black church rooted in the African American culture of the nineteenth century is an extremely significant fact. Many early manifestations of Pentecostalism were found in the religious expressions of the slaves and were themselves a reflection of the African religious culture from which they had been wrenched (Anderson 1991:27). Seymour himself was deeply affected by black slave spirituality (Nelson 1981: 157-158). Black pentecostal scholar Leonard Lovett said that “black Pentecostalism emerged out of the context of the brokenness of black existence... their holistic view of religion had its roots in African religion” (MacRobert 1988:77-78). Hollenweger (1986:5-6) considers the main features of this African American spirituality to be oral liturgy, narrative theology and witness, the maximum participation of the whole community in worship and service, the inclusion of visions and dreams into public worship, and understanding the relationship between body and mind manifested by healing through prayer. MacRobert (1988:29) adds that rhythmic hand clapping, the antiphonal participation of the congregation in the sermon, the immediacy of God in the services and baptism by immersion (all common pentecostal practices) are “survivals of Africanisms”. These expressions were fundamental to early Pentecostalism and remain in the movement to this day. The African roots of Pentecostalism help explain its significance in the Third World today. But as Robert Anderson (1979:222) observes, a movement which was “born of radical social discontent ... expended its revolutionary impulses in veiled, ineffectual, displaced attacks that amounted to withdrawal from the social struggle” in its subsequent history. This originally working class and racially integrated movement was designed to protest against the social system which marginalised its members, but it eventually “functioned in a way that perpetuated that very system”.

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The evangelical groups tried to dissuade Central Americans from joining movements for social change, by holding out the hope of spiritual alternatives to political action. They were the cheerleaders for US military intervention. Many North American missionary organisations were CIA fronts following orders from Washington. Evangelical growth was the direct result of strategic US planning.
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In 1971, he earned a diploma in Divinity from Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas.
In 1981, he earned a Doctorate of Divinity from the Word of Faith College in New Orleans.
In 1984, he earned a Doctorate in Law at the Oral Roberts University.
He was the founding president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN)
He was a member of the College of Bishops of the International Communion of Christian Churches.
He was once the President of All Nations for Christ Bible Institute.

nutty_hnic: Am beginning to think maybe Western Intelligence Injected Our President with a drug that contains a "Dummmmy Hormone".

ballabriggs: Thank you very much. The bolded is to show you how devilish leaders in Nigeria are. What good leaders do is to look for capable hands to take over- succession planning. What Olusegun Obasanjo did was to look for those he thought will be his stooge (oh yes members) once he leaves. He thus put horrible leaders to take the baton for his own selfish reasons. He is a pathetic and greedy human being.

Unfortunately for him the Jona he thought was going to be an 'oh yes man' has decided to free himself. Reason why you have the so-called crisis today.

Welcome To Change 2015
We want Change and have sworn to work for Chance come 2015. It is not uncommon for the naysayers to say Nigerian has gone beyond repair; and they abound in our society. But as youths who are among the much deprived in our nation; as youths who are without jobs; as youths that deserve a better life; as youths who have the energies to fight for good course and as youths who detest the deepening irascibility of today's ruling elites; our task is to muscle back our God-given land from the hands of impostors
We demand good leadership. We demand an end to irresponsibility and corruption in our land. We demand an end to rogues and common criminals in power. We want a country we can be proud of - a land we can call our father land. We want a leadership that will care for us in all sincerity, at all times. We must have leaders who are not only accountable to us - the people; but must be truthful to us at all times.
We have been misruled; we have been divided along ethnic lines. We have been deprived of opportunities to create as commanded by God, Allah by the lack of jobs in our land. Our Policemen have been criminalised; our courts are for the highest bidders. Our laws have been bastardised to the law of jungle, where might is right. Justice eludes the youths and the poor.
Our schools and our psyche, they have destroyed. Our youths they have failed to educate and equip properly.
But at this moment, at this very unique time of our nationhood; the necessities of the today is compelling us to come together to salvage our nationhood. We cannot do it individually alone; we are to doing it in group, in common purpose. Our denials are same; our demands must be same - good governance, law and order, accountability, an end to corruption and irresponsibilities, justice and fair-play, creation of opportunities for youths to exercise our talents.
We cannot continue to allow the uninformed among us to continue to waste our resources and our opportunities. We are standing to take over our fatherland for the good of our people. We are standing to galvanize our positive efforts together to win back our land from those that have misruled us. We must do it in togetherness, because the misrule of the day affects us all. We all, are standing to pay the price to inherit our nation.
Ours is a group conscience, ours is a group renaissance; an awakening to put an end to the human and material wastages of the day. Ours is a movement going from town to town, from village to village, from house to house and from door to door until all the progressive among us are awakened. Ours is a team of volunteers willing to carrying the campaign to every nook and cranny of our land; from the mangrove swamps of Niger Delta to the Sahel savannah of Hausa Fulani land; from the Oriental lands of the East through the massive plains of middle belt, down to the sunset land of the Yoruba's; our task is to rally our people for the great course.
Our votes must make a statement in bulk; our block votes will determine who will rule us. Our block force will police our ballot boxes from every pooling booth in the land to the collection centres; to ensure a free and fair election.
Our aggregation of progressives will henceforth work for the the well-being of fatherland. This is our task.

mars123: solution 1:for just 3 years let us forget our tribe and religion in judging right or wrong.
Solution 2:for just 3 years if u don't have the qualification for a specific job/u aren't putting efforts in what you do for ur work/country,stay away from it.
Solution 3:for just 3 years don't speak favourably/elect ur brother into a position that he will ruin/spoil.
Solution 4:for just 3 years let people in Nigeria who are caught to break the law be made to face the FULL WRATH of the law...accountability is key!
Solution 5:in any election do not vote a less qualified candidate because of his party,tribe,religion or geo-political zone...obasanjo can never beat the likes of Donald Duke in a presidential election in any serious country!...we can solve most of our problems in just three years!