People prefer to ask their next door mates, 'is this thing real, does it work?' knowing fully well that they can easily dismiss such claims as lacking in truth but will never so much as lift a foot to get closer to the scene of such occurrences so as to verify for themselves

Lazy Nigerian youths, the lot of them.

dacostar:
When OBJ was President, Jos boiled to hell, we did not blame it on him, we critically looked into what the problem was.

When Jonathan was President, Jos boiled to hell, we did not blame it on him, we critically looked into what the problem was.

Jos is boiling again, we are not bothered with what the problem could be but squarely blaming it on PMB. Why does the yardstick always have to Change against PMB? Why? Can't we just be objective and be fair?

The Jos problem has been for ages, why don't we look into what really the problem is and sought lasting solution?

He is the Commander in Chief so the buck stops with him. He has a mandate to secure the lives of Nigerians. Now GEJ just got ousted and one of the main reasons for this was the inability of his government to clamp down on Boko Haram. Why should we judge things differently now?

Whilst I do not support the act of infidelity under any guise whatsoever, I believe that it is hypocritical to criticize male folks of such acts whilst shielding the female folks from any blame/criticism associated with such acts like going around streets in broad day light without bra (nips showing) and the particular act that was aptly described by daddy freeze.

It's plain hypocrisy.

Hello all, there is one winner for me here but I'd love to have your say in this matter.

People say Beyoncé is the Queen but comparing the quality of music they both churn out, for me Rihanna is easily the superior of the two. I know Queen Bee is well regarded for her musical prowess in her own rights and rightly so but if we would take away all the PR stuff, the celebrity status thing, the dancing skills, their social media following, etc etc and we focus omy in the quality of music they deliver to our doorstep, easily the winner has to be Riri.

What's your take?

andreawills96:
the girlfriend that sent the screenshot might be lying out of envy, plus something like this happened to a relation of ours, he found out the truth after leaving the girl. my advice let him find out by himself but not you

Whilst this could be true, the suggestion to let the cat out of the bag doesn't automatically say that the bride to be is guilty.

We are simply advising the man to tell his friend what he has found out so his friend can have his wife to be do a proper test. For all you know, the test may reveal that the friend of the wife to be had evil plans against their marriage and that the woman actually has her womb intact, but ignoring the message or 'minding ones own business' would be a grave mistake.

Let the test reveal the true position of things.

Dangote isn't dead. Normally I wouldn't expect someone "close" to Aliko to confirm the story. They'd rather deny the story than confirm it. Not saying the person is lying but how authentic are his/her claims that it never happened?

The funny thing is that despite all these shouting shouting on NL and other social media, the tithes are evergrowing.

CAPSLOCKED:




MORE AND MORE THREATS..

TODAY WAS LIT FOR ME THOUGH.

Not a threat. These are what we hear and see from time to time.

clems88:
I have a dream NIGERIYA WILL LOOSE

yes by 4 goals to one.

Buhari's fault that we are only one goal ahead. Should have been at least 4 if the Daura Don hadn't spoiled the boys with ludicrous sums thereby reducing their effectiveness on the pitch. I blame Buhari.

wristbangle:


Half time score

No e never reach half time. I pray we equalise soon. If they score second goal e don be o.

wristbangle:


Half time score

No r never reach half time. I pray we equalise soon. If they score second goal e don be o.

Camerooun 1 0 Nigeria

5-0 to Nigeria boy I'm really loving this!

Thank God we don score. Now I can take my leave from the viewing center

Responding to an allegationot or keeping mute about it is a matter of choice. I have been lied against but shoved it all away particularly because I was too occupied to engage in a war of words and slur. Some people said I was right to refrain others thought otherwise. I'll never really know whether I was right to be mute but there are 2 things I knew:
1. Despite the overwhelming rumblings, the truth never suddenly became the lie and the lie never suddenly became the truth;
2. I had a free choice to make whether to react or refrain

If Abu accuses Ali of stealing meat, I'd ask Abu for proof and even though I'd ask Ali if he did this or not, I wouldn't bother him with proof 'that he did not steal meat'. I'd seek proof from Abu especially if Abu seems certain to have verifiable evidence as the burden of proof lies with him.

HardMirror:
It's no news that Apostle Sulaiman of Omega Fire Ministries, Auchi is presently battling a sex scandal and an attempt to silence a certain Miss Stephanie Otobo.
Events that has followed after this accusations raises more eyebrows than calm the situation.

Here are 5 actions that I believe gave the apostle away and makes him likely to be guilty than innocent.


1. Arrest of Miss Otobo
Yes. The whole scandal blow out with the news of the arrest of Miss Otobo, whom Apostle sulaiman claims was trying to black mail him.
It is not bad that she was arrested but why the following?
- accusation that she is a terrorist. What? Really? So you just arrest and detain someone for terrorism without evidence? This is an obvious give away. It is glaring they are just trying to silence the accused lady.

- arrested when she was trying to withdraw money sent to her from Apostle sulaiman's account. Now this is just so funny. Apostle claims she was blackmailing him and collecting money from him. For real. Would any sane person be sending money to a total stranger? Is it possible I just get pastor Adeboye's phone number and ask him to start sending money to me if I don't have any information he does not want exposed? This is enough for me to know the Apostle has lots of skeleton in his cupboard.


The supposed denial of Miss Otobo
After sahara reporters blew the cover over Apostle's sex scandal. The first retort we got was from. Miss Otobo herself. Yes, you read that right. Under 24hrs there was a post by "miss otobo" claiming Apostle was innocent and she had never met him. This post was published here on nairaland too.

how could miss otobo who was still in prison be posting on instagram?

- how come she said she had never met apostle only for apostle suleman to letter said he was trying to help her.

- when she was released from prison, she made it clear she was not backing down on the case. So who posted using her name to clear apostle sulaiman?
My people use your head.

3. Daniella Okeke immediately Daniella Okeke was mentioned as one of the Ladies apostle was spending church money on, she immediately changed the privacy settings of her instagram page. Why?

She has not denied the allegations.

Not responded in anyway. But she seems to be cleaning her tracks real fast.

4. Daniella Okeke Again and Apostle Sulaiman Benz Gl450 again sahara reporters reported a certain Benz Gl450 which was registered to Apostle Sulaiman.
The registration could be verified on the lagos state vehicle registration board's website.

NOTE THAT THIS INFORMATION WAS VERIFYIABLE ON SATURADY AND SUNDAY (12th and 13th of March)

All of a sudden this morning we can't find the ownership details on the site anymore.

For real?

WHY WAS THIS INFORMATION REMOVED FROM THE WEBSITE.

This was followed by a post from a disciple of apostle sulaiman coming here on nairaland to call sahara reporters liars and announcing that there was no ownership information on the website.

For real?

An information many of us verified especially yesterday?

This is a well planned out attempt at damage control.

[b] 5. Apostle filing against Festus keyamo and threatening sahara reporters I need not say much on this.

I know we wish that the Apostle is guilty in this matter for varying reasons, not least, because of the fun and excitement such a revelation would bring. We'd be laughing our asses out sneering, 'Apostle, Apostle....' and there'd be no way out for the accused. But deep down in our hearts we know that these claims at the moment are allegations at best and it'd be wrong to make them anything other than that. I believe the burden of proof lies with the accuser to produce evidence beyond reasonable doubt and the controversy would be put to bed. If someone accuses me of wrongdoing, I have a choice to either respond or not respond depending on varying factors. Ms Otobo can save us more drama if she would just produce a verifiable proof.

Seun:

Can't you just wash it when you bathe?

Seun I really think you shouldn't bother yourself with what Mark believes. He has his life to live and so do you. If he doesn't believe in atheism, there is no point saying he does and what's all the fuss about his belief system anyways. Okay if he's a Jewish, Catholic, Buddhist, Atheist, etc how does it help? Please dont bother yourself with whatever he holds as his belief system because he's different from you.

battleaxe:


It's on the first page bros.... In the original post! No need for coding.

oh! I just saw that now. I know the man, easy going and highly intelligent

Seun:
I'm proud of the record-breaking achievements of the students of The Ambassadors College, Ota, who won all the prizes in both categories. I'm also proud of the staff and owners of The Ambassadors College who invested so much to make this happen, especially my brother and parents.

your brother's name starts with a 'I' and ends with a 'U'. Never been to Ambassdors College but I know someone that knows someone.....

SirShifty:
The important is to not stop questioning, many theists say God did it, this answers absolutely nothing about our origins rather if anything it puts a big question mark. If it we never find out about the origin, it is a worthy goal to keep searching, science is cumulative each generation builds upon the advancement of the others.

Religion has no answers to give us, i see people here saying it is Intelligent design, this contributes nothing to our quest for the origins of the life.

thanks for your input. I'll be glad though if we stick to the subject, 'will science ever find out how life started?'

chrmn1:
well said dude! People first belive before they reason not the other way round. It's basic human behaviour. People belive something first then try to rationalize it not the other way round (i.e. Rationalize then believe)

please let's stick to the subject of discourse, namely, 'will science ever find the answer to the puzzle, how did the universe begin?'. Thank you for your input though

oglalasioux:


Thanks for the clarification.

But my point is;

Because of the achievements of science in the past 400 years, it won't take more than another 100 years for science to answer your question. It's true that when one question is answered another one pops up. But I'll call that continuing genesis; something to give ever coming generations something to do.

Why not narrow your question to our present lifetime? It'll be easier to give you an answer.

I hope so but I don't think it works that way. That scientific findings have grown tremendously over the past few centuries is no guaranty that it will find answers to a certain scientific question in the coming century. Researchers are working to find answers no doubt but as we speak there are no indications yet that they will resolve this puzzle.

oglalasioux:


My point remains that science has provided much and will continue to gradually lay bare the secrets of the universe. Charles Darwin couldn't prove evolution by natural selection but 200 years later, science has the evidence. It'll be said today that science can never find how the universe started but the theory of the big bang has concrete evidences which the cosmic microwave background is the most physical. With time science will learn more and maybe in a thousand years from now people of that time will open our history and marvel at how primitive we are and yet survived just as we look back two thousand years and wonder what it was like to travel through Sahara desert from west Africa to the middle east which took people years compared to today that it takes just a few hours.

Unlike religion, science is very dynamic and thrives on proving other theories wrong. Science grows when there's a means of falsifying other theories. You don't try that in religion. You accept everything even when the lies are starring at you.

you see friend, one would argue that this puzzle seems unique and is of a different nature. Anyone who doubts the awesomeness of scientific discoveries and the role of science in finding out about our great universe hasn't got a clue. I opened this thread because of an argument among my co-workers and even the guy that champions the idea that science cannot find out how life started is not a religious guy so this is clearly not about religion.
The difficulty basically stems from the possibility of making observations of how life started but recently scientists are trying to
demonstrate in principle how it could occur. Researchers are trying to show undeniably that chemistry can naturally become biochemistry and once they do this they believe they would have made progress in answering this question. Problem is when they do, someone will still ask, 'how did chemistry come about?' So it begs the question, yes researchers are seeking answers but are they seeking answers to THIS question? The jury is still out as to whether science will answer the question or not eventually but I think the subject question is a valid one to ask.

oglalasioux:


The much we know about the universe started from Copernicus about 600 years ago. Prior to that mankind was practically in the dark. I tell you; with the advance in science and technology mankind will find mind boggling facts about our universe in just another 100 years. To quote Michio Kaku, an American theoretical physicist, by the year 2100 we'll have the power of the gods.

Yes I used the bible in the context because the OP based his question on the christian religion.

it would mean those that claim that science will never find out how the universe started, regardless of their views in support of or against theism, cannot be dismissed just yet as there are no clear cut scientific answers at the moment.....fingers crossed till year 2100 then

oglalasioux:


The much we know about the universe started from Copernicus about 600 years ago. Prior to that mankind was practically in the dark. I tell you; with the advance in science and technology mankind will find mind boggling facts about our universe in just another 100 years. To quote Michio Kaku, an American theoretical physicist, by the year 2100 we'll have the power of the gods.

Yes I used the bible in the context because the OP based his question on the christian religion.

wondering how you came to the conclusion that the OP based his question on Christian religion. Lets say you presumed that part.

Good post. However this puzzle seems unique by its very nature as it has to deal with pre-history. Very interesting question, this. For now it's fingers crossed. Also I didn't mention faith in my original post. Let's stick to the subject.

A lot of work is currently being done to answer this question but at present, there seem to be no answers just yet. Some people say there was some sort of natural energy conversion that began the current state of this universe only problem is that they are in the dark as to what kick started the energy conversion as no evidence survives from that time and Science needs evidence to work off of.

To put it in simple terms, whatever process is explained regarding how life evolved we still need to date it back to where it all started and if we all agree that it started at point A, somebody would ask me, 'How did A come on the scene?'

What do you say?

Thanks a bunch David

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