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The simple and final answer is : DON'T, even if the heavens will fall. If you do, you will later regret. Mark my words.

nwaimoroseyaho:
The way some of you doubt God marvels me.
If God can create a human being can't he equally heal?

Nobody is doubting that God who created life can heal. HE definitely can. The question to be determined is, did HE in this particular instance, heal by miracle?

Its just like someone asserting - Donald Trump has authorised a US military strike against Iraq yesterday. Can he do it? YES. Did he do it? Without evidence, the answer is Capital NO.

Primebuilders:
Op one question. Why was a person from Nigeria that was supposed to go to India for an operation but was rejected, but later taken to Australia for the operation taken back to India on being pronounced dead and not Nigeria. I did not get that part of the story

EXACTLY.

IamaNigerianGuy:
That is a brilliant question and I will answer it.

No it does not represent a double standard @FullDepth.
In medicine, there are two diagnosis that laymen may make (although they may be wrong) - a diagnosis of pregnancy and one of death. Because of long tradition and experience, these diagnosis are almost always correct. In some cases, like this one, they may be wrong (another example of a layman error in diagnosis is a woman with fibroids who thinks she is pregnant.)
A case of spontaneous resolution or closure of a VSD (hole in the heart) is not made lightly and not made by laymen. It must be supported with medical 'pictures'. We term these images.

Closure of a 'hole' can occur but this is usually in children. It may recur later in life especially if the person is physically active. This is the cause and explanation of some of heart problems in footballers from Africa which we read in the news.
So to sum up, such an occurrence in this age group is rare, it must be backed by evidence and it may not be permanent.

I concur. "Extraordinary claims require extra-ordinary evidence", according to carl sagan

This may sound dumb...but frankly, what is boot camp? And how do we go there?

Mynd4, close this tribalistic and pointless thread.

Tribe this, tribe that. Rubbish western paper education. Has any of you used it to invent or produce anything. Are we going to eat certificates? We are talking about meaningful productive science and technology, and they are ranting about useless colonial-inspired education

Watchout! Before u know it, these delicious goats will be declared ENDANGERED SPECIES.

For the love of God, Rule 2 must be enforced, if decency, humanity, and reasonable intellectual discourse must prevail on this forum.

This great forum is fast degenerating into a cacophony of petty and foolish squabbles on ethnicity. I wont call it tribe because it was the colonialist who invented that term and imposed it on us as part of the dehumanizing process of white domination. And rather than cast it off now that 'his' influence has waned, yet we persist on our now self-inflicted mental prison. This young generation that was casted to represent a new African, free of colonial mental enslavement is now mired in self delusion and inferiority complex.

Everywhere on nairaland, if its not tribe this, its tribe that. Yes inferiority complex! Because it is only that which lacks a sense of personal worth or achievement that is desperate to latch unto the achievements of others in the name of tribe. At a time when the world is abandoning even nationalism (that larger concept of tribe) in favour of multi ethnic states and inter-national regional groupings, our youth are going backwards to ethnicity.

As the operators of a popular and influential forum as this, the founders and mods have a social responsibility to guide discussions, and censure negative ideas.

carzola:
32 years 7 kids....

How much was this man making
Why don't people learn family especially
Those with low income.


Please go and look for a job..
Your husband knew the dangers
Of his occupation and he still
Signed off for.. You dont expect
The bank to give you millions
Or the police force either...
His gratuity will be payed
Along with compensations from
The bank...


After watching the video over ND over again
Its shows that he open fire on the robbers first... The bank has policies all their money is insured lay down on the floor allow them to carry it.. Dont be a hero.

O black african! Wise up! Only a fool will write as you have written. Instead of blaming the robbers, you have chosen to blame a man who died in active service of his job, and his unfortunate, suffering wife.

UnimkeAk:
Shhhhhhh , is civil engineering part of ur age?
Havent u seen guys that graduated at 19/20/21/22
Same dpt, naija sch, mk u no talk say i do sch abroad, finished my pop and i wasnt 23 yet.

U are just a 23 yr old fool, to even think of sucide because of a girl.
Ure a disgrace to ur family, i feel sorry for ur poor mama.
How can u allow a lady to degrade u that way...

Abeg, make una forgive the OP. Pls take it easy on the OP. Whats done is done. Its only damage control thats left.

kennygee:
Na wa

Still, the soldier had a choice, was the man armed?

Killing the man just no be am.

He could have been a boko haram suicide bomber with hidden bombs. The soldier had no way of knowing.

WE MUST NOT FORGET!

1986

ANGO MUST GO!

Confusion break bone. Wa lai! There is truly no government in Nigeria

godquality:
Of course it makes perfect sense. The ring is a constant reminder to them that whatever they might be doing is wrong and people who cheat removes it to feel less guilty about what they are doing or trying to do.
Am not saying she did something just trying to explain that despite being married, taking off their rings still make sense when they meet.

At this, I reserve my comment.

rogovo20:
Thats why I tried to interrogate her to know if they saw each other, she said they never did, theres no how to know that, only Jah does. But the only thing that gave me a feeling they saw each other was the ring she pulled, her version of the reason why she pulled it sounds RED FLAG to me. In modern days now, some men and women who cheat always remove their ring

.

Try and make a little common sense. Why should she remove ring to see her ex, who knows quite well she is married? It doesn't make sense.

Hmm

Ok

Tolbanks:
Ahn ahn... KILODE

50 wives at the same time!!!

How he wan take dey do them? O ga ooo. Wonders they say shall never end

FTC again the second time

Walai! Some comments dey tire person. Abeg, please read with comprehension. He financed their marriages to their suitors. What's all this?

GavelSlam:
Is he really?

Can you actually say the number of people involved in 419 is less than a million?

If you have to debate that in your head then that's not generalising.

Its not even up to 10,000. Don't kid yourself. Its just like the identification of italians with mafia, or the chinese with kung fu. What's the percentage of chinese are kung fu masters; or what % of italians are associated with mafia? Its all stereotypes. Americans are associated with gun violence. In the early1980s (strange but true), A Nigerian father actually stopped his son from an American university scholarship because "u may be gunned down in New York, I cant risk you".

Because of the author's work on Nigerian Internet fraud, he is inundated with it, he cant see straight anymore. There is a lot wrong with Nigeria and Nigerians, but not worse than other peoples. The country seems worse because of the lack of effective Government to hold people in check. The oyibos are actually very depraved compared to us, but their Government is holding them on a tight leash else they would run a mock and destroy themselves and even the whole world. Think about it, all the corrupt and sordid things of this earth - who initiates and wallows in it? Prostitution (they have even legalized it in some countries), child pornography, child molestation, serial murder, mass murder, genocide, sexual pervertions, drug cartels, ponzi schemes,u name it. This last MMM ponzi fraud sweeping the world, is it also Nigerians?

Nigerians are just learning the ropes, and copying from the masters, just as we try to ape every other thing, good or bad.

The OP is jus indignant that whites are being made a fool of. Only a corrupt and naive fool would fall for the naija 419 scams, by attempting to gain or reap from the black man without sowing or giving back. The 419 works because the whites have gotten used to cheating the African, and now, that susceptibility is being used against them. If they didnt have that mindset of taking advantage of 'dumb' Africans, the 419 scheme wouldnt work.

Its an unfortunate turn of events.

donnffd:
While i am not against thinking wild and in awesome exotic ways, i still caution that belief should be based on evidence and the scientific method.

Even if all you said was correct, there was no way for us to test if it was true or not and so that put it in the realm of pseudo-science. We have to make do of what we can test and what we have evidence for and for now we have evidence for the 2nd law of thermodynamics and there is no indication whatsoever that when life ends, it transitions to any form of energy.

Agreed that there is no evidence, currently. I only advocated keeping an open mind as to the range of possibilities. After all what is the source of the hypotheses to be tested by the scientific method? Is it not the imagination based on the range of possibilities? Human knowledge of the universe, so far, is extremely limited.

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@bolded is either wrong or you are trying to portray a different message than you intended, i would like to understand what you mean by "highly organized energy", because we live in a universe that is ruled by the second law of thermodynamics. If life-forms stop getting a constant stream of energy, then only one thing follows after that, DISORDER, so the highly organizing part is very unlikely.[/quote]Am talking about dark matter/dark energy which is said to comprise 70% of the known universe.
At the cessation of life in the conventional material universe, lifeforms could generate dark matter composites which could exist in an alternative universe and continue to exist using dark energy. Think about it.

Come to think about it, there is nothing necessary about the 2ND LAW. It might as well be the reverse in an alternate universe. The universe could offer other exigencies to counteract it.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:
Just see the way we are using France's victory to insult our country as if we are not partly guilty for the rot in Nigeria. If a vibrant 39 year old comes out to contest for the seat of the President of Nigeria how many of us will vote for him? When it is election time the only thing we hear from our youth is 'he is Igbo, I will not vote him, she is Hausa I will not vote her'. If a 39 year old that is vibrant comes out to contest, we the youth will be the first to dismiss him/her as juvenile and we are here hailing the victory of France (as if it is ours), whilst criticising our country (as if we have not contributed to the rot). OK name me one 39 year old politician that the youths of Nigeria can rally round. Baba buhari please get well soon and come and continue ruling us til Nigerian youths acquire some sense.

Nnamdi Kanu?

Tompolo?

Asari Dokubo?

Why?...religious, or scientific?

Religious - after creating the world and humans, the only command God charged the first humans with was "Go out and multiply. Fill the earth, and dominate it" So if you are not fulfilling this supreme commandment, U must know deep down that u have failed your maker.

Looking from the scientific angle; evolution says that the fittest organisms thrive and the only way they can pass on the traits that made them so unique, is to reproduce and so transfer there succesful genes to their offspring for continuity. So if u are gifted, or unique and die without contributing to the genetic pool of humanity, then in terms of evolutionary time scales, your life was unproductive and practically a waste.

So, its better to be a single mother than to be unmarried and childless. The unmarried and childless (except u have invented something with long term impact on human culture) are really wasting their time on this mother earth. If u are not going to reproduce, then u better earn your life by inventing something or doing something that impacts history.

So it goes...

He was a waste to his parents. Better now than later.

More seriously, they left the discipline too late and they have paid for it. Spare the rod...

mikky4764:
science will always have an explanation for everything even wen it is so glaring.

Can you define science? Try to define science and then check what u wrote.

Billyonaire:
You are right. Only mad men change the world. Ask Steve Job.

Ah! You are here to change the world. Now I understand. The chosen one, I presume. The saviour who is to come. Ok.

No so madness they come. Or the seeds of another religion

OldBeer:
Bless you for this.
I thought I was the only sane person who knew the correct phrase.

Are you serious?

"You cant eat your cake and have it" is not a Nigerian thing at all, but is part of normal english usage. The fact is that there are two classical versions of this proverb, as used by the English people themselves. Check wikipedia entry:

The order of the clauses in the saying has been the subject of some debate, and was even used in forensic linguistics (contributing to the identification and arrest of the so-called Unabomber[7]).

An early recording of the phrase is in a letter on 14 March 1538 from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, to Thomas Cromwell, as "a man can not have his cake and eat his cake".[8]

The phrase occurs with the clauses reversed in John Heywood's "A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue" from 1546, as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?".[9] In John Davies' "Scourge of Folly" of 1611, the same order is used, as "A man cannot eat his cake and haue it stil."[10] In Jonathan Swift's 1738 farce "Polite Conversation", the character Lady Answerall says "she cannot eat her cake and have her cake."[11]

The order was reversed again in a posthumous adaptation of "Polite Conversation" in 1749, "Tittle Tattle; or, Taste A-la-Mode", as "And she cannot have her Cake and eat her Cake."[12][13][14] From 1812 (R. C. Knopf's "Document Transcriptions of War of 1812" (1959) VI. 204) is a modern-sounding recording as "We cannot have our cake and eat it too."[15]

According to the Google Ngram Viewer, the eat-first order was more common until about 1935, since which time the have-first order has become much more popular

ideylaff:
Only in Nigeria do you hail an appointment like this..... putting the cart before the horse.

A country with no steel production has this kind of parastatal > LOL

Sad thing is I see him taking up this role as they would have told him the same lingo " Dont say no to your father land" also
its not as if his role @ General Motors was setting the world alight, there are man Senior Creative Designers within GM on the same 70 to 85K salary which they sure will match with a bigger sume to entice hime back to Nigeria.

If he's wise he will reject this role..... Nigeria is known for making the best in their field end up bn ordinary and basic when you answer the Nigerian call

I concur. I mean just look at nnaji, the former minister of power enticed into nigeria then frustrated out of the ministry due to politics. The same man single handedly built a gas power plant at Aba to electrify the place for greater industrialization, but was frustrated from delivering the electricity to the people. This is an eminent man in US benefiting fron various US patents in his name.

Or are we talking about okonjo iweala?...

donnffd:
I dont believe in an after-life but i think your post is missing the crucial ingredient you promised in the title, "PROOF". This is not a proof, this is just an opinion.



@bolded is either wrong or you are trying to portray a different message than you intended, i would like to understand what you mean by "highly organized energy", because we live in a universe that is ruled by the second law of thermodynamics. If life-forms stop getting a constant stream of energy, then only one thing follows after that, DISORDER, so the highly organizing part is very unlikely.

You know about the 2nd law as operating in the visible universe. Meanwhile science hints that about 70% of the universe is dark matter/energy not yet observeable, only deduced from gravitational anomalies. How do u know if visible matter in some living things can generate dark matter which will then continue to feed off dark energy to maintain its organised state.

Aĺl these is just pure conjecture of course, but we need to think outside the box.