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AN ashawo after being thoroughly bleeped in 1950!

Men eat this?

legislathief turns chamber into his private lounge by putting his feet up. So oga no urgent legislative business?
No Light
No food
No house
No security
No work
No money and he had the cheek to put his feet up

What the FG is asking for is LGA independence and not autonomy.The FG wants to be the ones in control of the LGAs and its purely for political purpose.Am sure the bill will be defeated at the various state houses of assembly.LGAs are just administrative units and should remain so and whatever autonomy they need should still be under the state govts and not under the almighty federal govt.All the FG seeks to do is to undermine the authority of state govts,even with the lopsided nature of the exclusive list, it is still not satisfied.

LGA independence means freedom from control of state assembly, but under control from the national assembly .... and I say no to that ... .. the major issue with LGAs as they are presently constituted is the power most state assemblies have assumed to undemocratically sack elected councils ... and for me, the best way to determine if they have such powers is to approach the supreme court for a clear determination ... with this brand of LGA autonomy, will the LGAs be given a judicial arm too, like the two federating units recognized by the constitution ... so maybe each LGA will hav a chief judge too ... and some judges ... lets spend our time in a more productive way, not this pdp concoction and abracadabra of LGA autonomy ...

Lectures,return to classes

When a House of Representative member, Rep. Jagaba Adams Jagaba (PDP, Kachai/Kagarko Federal Constituency, Kaduna State), commented on the jumbo pay of legistlators, this is what he had to say.......

“No, how can we be the highest paid in the world? Have you cared to know how much ministers collect in Nigeria? Have you cared to know how much their aides have been collecting? The corruption we are talking, is it not the executive arm that is more involved than any other politician in the world? You see, the truth of the matter is that we are doing our work. ”

He never really denied it, but simply implied "We are not alone...."

The man should be commended for leaving a sinecure job for challenging endeavors.

Read the bible well and use your head to think; it is an abuse of the brain if you can't use it to think! It is written "I am the God Of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Isreal)". Have you heard him mention "Okon", "Adebayo", "Uzordima", "Belema", or the God of Nigeria? The God you are calling is not your own, he has declared so! That is why when you Africans say "Amaka" call on him, he doesn't answer because he is not the God of "Amaka". For an experiment call on him privately to prove to you He is real by making NEPA give light for 24hours today, after all "He can do ALL things". Pardon me if I've destroyed your fantasy.

There is no consensus on how we got to this 4.5 billion-year-old piece of real estate called the earth. The best estimate says that modern man showed up some 200,000 years ago. The only consensus is that the first series of questions that crossed the mind of the first group of men and women who saw themselves on earth were: who am I? Where am I? How did I get here? Who made me? Where am I going from here? These questions are the original questions.

The search for answers to these original questions started from the very point they were first asked. They have continued until this day. Every now and then, century after century, we come up with new answers different from the ones before. These answers are tweaked and tweaked, promoted and advertized, until they become a force of nature called religion.

To understand how helpless we are in the face of this force, imagine a baby brought home from the hospital by its parents. When the baby opens its eyes, it sees the parents. The parents feed and care for the baby. In no time the baby looks up to the parents, especially the mother. The baby holds the parents in awe for all they do for it including, putting a roof over its head. To babies parents are gods. The words of the parents are the religion of childhood.

With time the baby begins to see the world outside of its parents’ house. It begins to see other houses and other parents and begins to question its original thoughts about its parents. Even when the child finds out that its parents are not all that it made them to be, out of habit and out of fear that there are no replacement parents out there that will accept it as a natural born, the child sticks to its parents. That is why most children of unfit parents, jailed parents and absentia parents find it hard to denounce their parents.

All cultures throughout history have come up with their answers to those original questions. It doesn’t matter how primitive a culture is. They come up with a story and over time the story develops. Expanding on the story, each culture tries to provide a guide on how to live this life in accordance with their story. The guide takes care of questions around life and death amongst other things. That is when the story becomes a religion.

And each religion sticks with its story, even when events raise questions about the credibility of the story or outright prove the story wrong. Most practitioners of every religion would rather follow it until they died. They rather find out the truth when they die than abandon the religion of their birth. And die they do, the believers and their religion alike.

The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.

The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?

The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.

Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.

It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.

It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.

The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.

To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.

Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.

Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion.

ejim blessing: SAY NO TO CHILD MARRIAGE IN NIGERIA: Paedophiles Senators, If She's TOO YOUNG to vote during your ELECTION, then she's too young to stand your ERECTI*N. Give her PEN not PEN*S, ask for her BOOKS not BO*BS, pay her SCHOOL FEES not BRIDE PRICE, she needs EDUCATION not EJACULATI*N. IF YOU ARE NOT IN SUPPORT OF CHILD MARRIAGE, PLEASE SPREAD THIS MESSAGE AND CONDEMN IN TOTAL TO PROTECT THE YOUNG NIGERIAN GIRL CHILD.

A 10 year old girl should be watching BEN 10 on tv not on round 10 on the bed.

"The argument that I personally find most shallow is that of ‘13-year-olds can get pregnant for their boyfriends, but they can’t get married?’ to which I say: upbringing goes a long way in determining what activities a child will be engaged in at that age. That some lost their virginity at 13 does not mean that all of us did, or that every child will. Why are we making examples of those pregnant teens, and not of many sisters who married in their mid-20s and were chaste? Why not say ‘why should a 13-year-old have sex when 23- year-olds are virgins?’ The truth of the matter is: a 13-year-old shouldn’t be having sex in the first place and marriage is therefore not a solution to that! ‘Legalizing’ sex for children is like saying ‘why criminalize corruption when politicians are bound to steal? Why don’t we just increase their allowances by 100,000 per cent?’" Rinsola Abiola

Why has the UK government started an advertising campaign telling illegal migrants to 'go home or face arrest'?

The Home Office has launched a campaign targeting illegal immigrants in which vans will be driven round London with the slogan "In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest". The vans will also display a text number that migrants can message to arrange their return, as well as showing residents how many illegal migrants have been arrested in their area. Paul Wylie immigration enforcement in London for the Home Office told the BBC

"We are stepping up the arrest work but we're also saying that's not our preference. We actually want people to volunteer to go home. It's in our interest because it costs considerably less for UK taxpayers, but hopefully it's also in the individual's interests...because it's a better way to return home - more dignity for the individual."

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Prof.Soyinka is a lion that truly deserves his jewel.

harbibi: What is this? Na by force to do wedding? Mtwww.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.What is the essence of borrowing to celebrate a wedding ceremony?

Very simple thing...the husband owns a bakery while the wife sells cold drinks so... There is no need to waste any money. ...*still smiling *

Very simple thing...the husband owns a bakery while the wife sells cold drinks so... There is no need to waste any money. ...*still smiling *

Tolexander: Where is the nairalander in the picture? Cos na only mikel and a lady i see for the picture. As far as am concern, greyman is a man and not a lady.

Do you know me personally?

Not only my head dey there,I get mouth die!