But I thought Peter and his wife were only yesterday congratulating Jude on the birth of his daughter But I thought Peter and his wife were only yesterday congratulating Jude on the birth of his daughter

if the person they are torturing is already like this........Nigeria! Nigeria! It will not be well for all those who have kept us in this sitiation

lomaxx:
I really hate it when Nigerians despise the efforts of medical professionals, when they want to tell their stories. The so-called testimonies are half truths, carefully concocted not to be a lie but leaving out the salient events.

You had PCOS. When you have PCOS, ovulation is hampered. So there's no way she could have had a child. What doctors do is when someone with PCOS is ready to have a child, ovulation is induced with a drug, and the couple can have a child.

The mere fact that she has twins is a possible pointer to the fact that ovulation was induced by the doctor. Multiple pregnancies that are not genetically gotten are mostly due to induced ovulation during the treatment for PCOS.

So madam, we are not saying you shouldn't thank God, but give credit to whom credit is due. It is a doctor that managed your condition and has helped you to have children. There's no benefit denigrating them and acting like they didn't do anything

God bless you for this post. Funny thing is one other ignorant woman suffering the same condition or possibly worse will probably be at home reading this woman's "testimony" and instead of going to a hospital to seek help will probably continue fasting and praying believing that indeed the miracle happened just like that.....Even reading some of the comments on this thead alone is nauseating

His only crime was that he was born into a poor Nigerian family His only crime was that he was born into a poor Nigerian family

mumumugu:
your man is cheating on
you......don't argue with him my
sister because you will not
win..Save your self from High
blood pressure....
Just change all
the names of the girls on his
phone.....do not delete the
numbers... Mix them...... replace
Chioma with Nneka...Oluchi
ola with Vicky.....Amaka with
Ngozi....so on and on.........
wait the moment he's gonna call or
sms them one by one......Make
your self a cup of coffee and
relax.. L l
You'll thank me later

Savage

mumumugu:
your man is cheating on
you......don't argue with him my
sister because you will not
win..Save your self from High
blood pressure....
Just change all
the names of the girls on his
phone.....do not delete the
numbers... Mix them...... replace
Chioma with Nneka...Oluchi
ola with Vicky.....Amaka with
Ngozi....so on and on.........
wait the moment he's gonna call or
sms them one by one......Make
your self a cup of coffee and
relax.. L l
You'll thank me later

Savage

Thewaythingsare:
Iliterecy truly goes beyond the ability to read and write!
I thought that literacy level in Nigeria was increasing until I got to Nairaland. Sad enough, most of the people dropping comments here are supposed to be graduates and students, yet they can not understand the implications of certain world trends. No wonder agberos can hold us to ransom as a country and the citizens can not even have a single voice to tell the leaders what we want
First the most important aspect of the process is your registration. Once you get your NIN, you are are a bona fide citizen. Your card which is almost an insignificant part of the whole process will be given you in due course. Remember that it is free and it costs some money to produce.
Now we should know something that even without your card, once you are registered. You can be identified any time any day with your finger print Even without the NIN.
So the most important thing in this whole thing is the NIN. Once you have your NIN, trust me, you are covered although the card will still be given you in due course. After this explanations, its saddening to still hear people who are supposed to be enlightened and digital clamour for the card like some local farmers in Mubi! So if I were you, I would rush down to an enrollment centre to register so I can afford myself the seeming luxury of the most important part, the NIN. Thanks

Instead of you to have asked why almost every one here was demanding for their cards, your smart self just concluded they were illiterates
P.S Banks have refused accepting the slips as a valid form of identification, they only accept the cards and other valid forms of identification apparently have some cost attached to it and so many did not register during the last election hence no voters card
Next time don't be so quick to assume, you don't end up coming off as smart

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Honestly it has. If not for the incessant strike actions lecturing in Nigeria would have become absolutely nothing to desire. This would have left us with a crop of lecturers who would not pass for primary school teachers. Plus once in a while we see structures erected in our schools courtesy of the Federal Government. Our government understands only the language of strike action

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Am inspired

jacoik:
bro u for complete the song na. Honestly I have been singing the song since morning but don't really know it again till end

osifa kpebe ekpere mak'njo k'uwa. Aha ya by lucy , Aha ya by Francisco, Aha ya by Jacinta (forgotten this part).Umu mary ooo, anyi (forgotten here as well)...Our lady help of Christians block rosary centre.Priceless memories

NextGovernor:
Most Nigerians Pastors are fake. Imagine Chris Okafor openly said my mother is a witch. I just laughed over his stupidity.

Woman that have cared for me all my life. Have helped me financially in one way or the other.

Was he expecting to go fight my mum? I aren't that stupid to believe that shit.

I will create a topic on my experience with him some day.

Thank God everyday because you do not know the bullet you dodged. These pastors have destroyed homes

Everyday I thank God I was born Catholic... Nothing comes close to a celebration of the mass. Et unam sanctam Catholicam

Ubenedictus:
no, am in the East right now and the closest chaplaincy is st Joseph the worker.

Okay...couldn't help but ask...that Jude nnam's Olisa song is amazing

gr8virus:
Please I need Dr. Najeeb's full videos, I am willing to pay

Same here

Boscojugunu:
same. Here. Especially pathology and pharmacology videos.

Same here please whenever you do find them please don't forget me

Ubenedictus:
Christos Anesti!

Chai! easter vigil was da bomb, dat moment when u are nodding and dancing and thumping at errm... hymns! Left church singing aka m di n'elu.

The Lord is rising!

St. Cecilia Choir @St. Luke's Chaplaincy sang that song that day. Do you worship there?

gypsey:
On the way to church to pay tithe so called Christians walk past some one who is in need of few hundred naira but ignores him/her and gives hundreds as tithe in the church How religious is that? most so called christians are confused.

This exact thing you shared I have experienced it with my very eyes.... I think it is only when God comes(which unfortunately is impossible) and talk to some people that they'll be released from this mental slavery that religious leaders keep us. See how they're quoting all sorts of scriptures to defend their beliefs

gypsey:
On the way to church to pay tithe so called Christians walk past some one who is in need of few hundred naira but ignores him/her and gives hundreds as tithe in the church How religious is that? most so called christians are confused.

This exact thing you shared I have experienced it with my very eyes.... I think it is only when God comes(which unfortunately is impossible) and talk to some people that they'll be released from this mental slavery that religious leaders keep us. See how they're quoting all sorts of scriptures to defend their belief

mmark12:
Great article below written by "Abimbola Adelakun of the Punch Newspapers"


BEFORE MMM, NIGERIANS WERE ALREADY GREEDY AND VULNERABLE

Over and over again, we have been admonished not to make fun of poor folks who were dupes of the now faltering Ponzi scheme, MMM. We have been enjoined to be emphatic, to spare those who have their money trapped in the scheme our sharpened tongues and the smug I-told-you-sos. We have been rightly reminded that Nigeria is currently experiencing recession pangs; the times are so hard it feels like the Sani Abacha years. Nigeria is in a poor shape, people are desperate and therefore vulnerable and in such a situation, they say, it is only fair to pity fellow Nigerians who invested their lifeblood in the MMM.

There is an element of truth in these but they are not entirely correct. The recession definitely has to do with the almost hysteric manner people have embraced Ponzi schemes but does not fully explain why there are at least eight of them going on in Nigeria right now and they all have patrons who passionately proselytize for each. Around 2007/08, people also fell victim to Wonder Banks and lost tons of money. What is primarily responsible for people’s involvement in pyramid schemes is greed, simple. Greed is a universal human failing; societies evolved laws to regulate greed and prevent us from having each other for lunch on the same day.

One cannot, however, talk about the popularity of Ponzi schemes without also acknowledging how our society’s belief system has encouraged magical thinking about money and the ways it can be multiplied. From urban legends recycled in Nollywood that promote ideas about money rituals, to politicians who flaunt wealth before the public even when there is scant evidence of their productivity, to the prosperity gospel regularly preached in churches, people are so vulnerable that they can be played for suckers.

I once attended a church service with a friend a while ago where the pastor asked us to “sow seeds into the kingdom” and he would prophesy that God would make us “billionaires”. We were at least 5,000 people in the church, how was it possible for all of us to be billionaires? The United States has the highest population of billionaires in the world and they have only 540 of them. How can God raise so many billionaires from a single church and in a country where we do not even produce pencils? Yet, all around me people enthused shouts of “Amen! I receive it!”

Our culture has promoted a mentality that individuals can make huge sums of money irrespective of the political and economic conditions of their country. People have been made to believe that they can extricate themselves from the destiny of their country because, well, their case is different. This sort of weightless individualism being promoted does not find a support structure in our society’s organizing philosophy and therefore opens people up to dubious schemes.

When people have been taught that money can come as a miracle, do not be surprised when they believe virtually anything that turns them to pliable tools in the hands of swindlers.

Online, people see a picture of dollars, luxury cars, or some other markers of prosperity on a parody account of a popular preacher. To the image is appended a prayer that those “blessings” can be theirs and their eyes water at the possibility. Then, they are instructed thus, “If you believe, type Amen” and thousands proceed to do so; poor dupes who are sincerely convinced that there is some magic to merely typing “Amen” to a prayer that offers them what they never worked for.

Our value system has plunged to the point there is an acute disconnect between dignity of labor, hard work, honesty, ethics, and what we now call success; no surprise that young people fall for Ponzi schemes. My friend, a professor in a university, told me how astounded he was to find that his students were also involved in the MMM. They in fact, tried to recruit him. Our joint observation was that the MMM and other Ponzi schemes would do to the educated class what “Okada” did to the culture of apprenticeship in Nigeria – it provided a means of earning quick bucks for poor and struggling youths at the expense of building skill set. Young people who thought spending two or three years learning a trade was tedious and paid less were seduced into the futureless career of riding motorcycles for a living.

Today, Nigeria’s building contractors have had to travel as far as Benin Republic to find capable artisan workers. In some years’ time, classrooms in our tertiary institutions would have abdicated their hallow and noble responsibility to nurture the nation’s intellectual class and turned to recruiting centers for Ponzi schemes. Why not? You have lawmakers and Pentecostal pastors who use the social media to unabashedly flaunt their sports cars which they drive on cratered Nigerian roads without being hit by a sense of irony. Their audience take note and conclude that certain kinds of superlative possibilities exist; they only need to find their share.

Yes, I understand the vulnerability of unlettered people who fall into the hands of fraudsters who, for instance, ask for their ATM PINs. What I do not understand is how people who can use the Internet to educate themselves can believe that a scheme that turns over at the rate of 30 per cent monthly is legitimate. On the MMM website, you are asked to type an amount into “Happiness calculator” which links to a webpage where you see a chart of your money as it multiplies. If you type in N5,000, “Happiness calculator” shows it can go up as much as N100,000 plus in 12 months. If you are the greedy type, you will add a couple of more zeroes to your N5,000 and begin to salivate when “Happiness calculator” multiplies it beyond your expectation. If you are the Obierika character in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the kind of person who thinks about things, you would question that kind of an unregulated enterprise that promises so much in such a short time.

In truth, we can blame the state of our country and the very constricted chances people have to access routes of prosperity they are aware exist elsewhere. For instance, Pentecostal Christians call themselves “kingdom investors” and when they put their money in dubious projects like the MMM too, they carry over the same register of enterprise and declare themselves “investors.” Their choice of vocabulary suggests a longing to put their money in savings portfolios and build their financial future like is done in stable economies. But when there is a lack in the society, churches and other Ponzi schemes rise and fill the gap. They give people chances to be called “investors” and those poor folks expend all manner of irrational arguments to legitimize those schemes.

One of the many things I found ironical about the MMM is the Marxist bent of their “ideology” pasted on their website. They argue that many people will work but will never amount to anything because the financial system of the world itself runs like a Ponzi scheme. On this note, they have a point but their truth is so overstretched it snaps like a rubber band. Modern banking systems, for instance, may run like a pyramid scheme but they are regulated, they do not offer outlandish profits, and they make legitimate business investments. They are not perfect but they are far more transparent than the MMM. For all the MMM’s raves and rants against the enslaving financial systems of this world and their destruction of people at the bottom to sustain the wealth of those at the top, it does not urge them to overthrow their oppressors. Instead, it merely offers them schemes that encourage them to join the party.

beautiful piece.... Every bit true

k

lovely thread

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