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Congrats to the young man. Hungary will now be pro-Europe instead of selling with Russia

This guy is a failure and will perform woefully if he unfortunately becomes governor

Much better if woman can have mentality to buy her own things and even spend on you sometimes, not every time, I need this, but this for me, sky no go fall. Naija women sef ehn

Oledia:
Written by PROF B. CHIMA ONUOHA

Freedom of religion is both a fundamental and constitutional right of people, including students. It is important to state clearly that _rights_ should not be abused or used to inconvenient other persons. It is also necessary to indicate that university campuses are not seminaries or theological schools. Even such religious institutions are governed by rules and regulations. They emphasise hard-work, focus and discipline. There is no place for lawlessness or self-aggrandisement.

The Nigerian larger society is afflicted with “over-religiousity”. Churches are everywhere and springing up every day. People are highly religious without being Christ-like. Miracle seeking has become the order of the day, instead of hard-work, sincerity and dedication. The Almighty God and the angels in heaven are earnestly expected to solve all our problems including those that we have the physical and mental capacity including resources to solve by ourselves. Every failure, misfortune or sickness is an “attack” from someone or somewhere. People are simply not ready to bear the consequences of their actions or inactions.

Instead of the government and political leaders confronting unemployment, insecurity, economic hardships, and underdevelopment head-long, they get church owners or the big religious entrepreneurs to tell Nigerians to pray for solutions to descend from heaven. And Nigerians, suffering from what I call “religious mumuism” will key in.

Religious leaders, particularly General Overseers (GOs) and pastors are instilling fears in people, making them to be excessively prayerful and being lazy in the process.
Over religiousity has long creeped into the university campuses, from Monday to Sunday. I have observed that during school hours when some students have free hours in between lectures, instead of revising treated topics or those to be taught, or go to the departmental, faculty or main libraries to study, they form prayer groups, singing and dancing thereby disturbing on-going lectures around. In a particular federal university, prayer groups of its Faculty of Management Sciences, stage their religious disturbances behind the Senate building of that particular university, very close to the faculty, serving as distraction/disturbance to on-going lectures.

In another federal university, a faculty that has Eleven (11) BSc programmes in five departments not mentioning part time and post graduate programmes, with acute shortage of lecture halls had a myopic disposition of leasing out a very important lecture hall for three days (Wednesday-Friday) for religious Event. This is repeated at intervals. What a priority! The implications were/are very obvious – many lectures will continue to be cancelled, disturbances and distractions of on-going lectures in the vicinity and far reaching academic consequences.

In a particular state university where serious academic competition was the order of the day, students – those in the hostels and around the campus had the constant habit and practice of returning to classrooms and lecture halls to read between 7:30 pm and 12 midnight every day. Along the line, there were many prayer groups that were also competing with students for the same venues, with their noisy activities. It took almost a riot from the larger student body for the university authorities to ban all religious activities on campus during school periods/days.

Pentecostal churches are finding university campuses fertile grounds for crusades with the usual road shows/funfair around and inside the campuses. These crusades can last three or more days. During these periods, many students abandon their lectures and studies. It does not matter if the semester examinations are starting in the next two days. Instead of studying hard, students are keying into miracle and prosperity preaching. The wealth without work mindset or perspective. We have heard of students going to “men of God” to bless their biros, rulers and pencils before the exams. Some go to tap “anointing” before examinations. In a particular faculty, two lecturers are fond of spending the first ten to fifteen minutes in praise and worship before commencing lectures. These actions often disrupt teaching functions in close-by lecture halls. In fact, campus religious activities are becoming fads in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The youths are the most endangered group today in the country from three sources:
1. No tangible programmes for them from the government – devaluation of education via underfunding; poorly paid and unmotivated teachers; inadequate youth empowerment schemes; high unemployment rate; they are used for thuggery and election rigging, etc.

2. Religious and spiritual enslavement from Pentecostal churches, with all sorts of deceits and manipulations. Some students are hoodwinked to use their school fees, feeding and book money to pay tithe, sow spiritual seeds, bless “men of God”, etc, and expect miracles thereafter. Most times, the miracles don’t happen, yet they keep hoping endlessly.

3. Social media negative influences – “education is scam”; pinging for hours instead of reading; watching films/videos endlessly; penchant for hook-up; quick money and yahoo syndrome; pathological lying; proclivity to partying; drug abuse; imbibing wild values, etc.

At this point, let me ask few innocuous questions
• Are universities meant for incessant religious crusades, apart from the usual weekend (more specifically – Sunday) church programmes?

• Are universities not meant for studies; providing solutions to societal and the nation’s developmental challenges, the so called “the gown going to town”? These are the main purpose of establishing universities, nationally and globally.

• Which university in Nigeria has reasonable endowment funds from research, innovations and commercialisation of research outputs? See my article – “Nigerian University System and Endowments”.

• What research efforts, technological or industrial hub will crusades bring to the campuses or society?

Instead of joining leading global universities to be agents of economic and technological advancement, the nation’s university system is seeking the easy-way out like government and political leaders – miracles, relevance and success without hard-work and strategic plans. There is no single technology centre in Nigeria. Universities have critical roles to play in the establishment of technology centres. Most global dominant clusters have their origin from nearby universities. For example, the history of Silicon Valley (in California, USA) will be incomplete without the notable roles of Stanford university, its industrial park, affiliates and graduates. Silicon Valley is home to many of the world’s largest and richest high-tech corporations and thousands of start-up companies. Some of them are Fortune 1000 companies.

For me, any person is free to disagree… excessive religious activities on campuses are affecting studies, hard-work, creativity, productivity and research efforts, adversely.

When we were in the university, undergraduate programme, intellectual competition was rigorously encouraged by the system, lecturers and students themselves. As students, we challenged ourselves to mention how many As and Bs each of us aimed at scoring. The courses should also be mentioned in advance. In that era, more than 90 percent of courses/exams were “attempt all questions”. Four or five questions to answer all. Again, we challenged ourselves to answer the questions the way they appeared – no jumping questions. For example, if a course has four questions, to answer all. We said that if you are intelligent or hardworking, your answers should be 1, 2, 3 and 4 questions; not 2, 4, 1 and 3 on your exam booklet. The same was applicable if the course has options. For example, a lecturer may set 6 questions and asked the students to attempt 4 out of the 6. The challenge to ourselves remained – answer the questions the way they appeared. If you are intelligent or hardworking, your answers would appear (in the case of 6 questions) 1, 2, 3, 4, leaving out 5 and 6. In other words, it didn’t matter if questions 5 and 6 were easier. What am I saying? In addition to the enslavement from indiscriminate and unwholesome religious activities, majority of our current students are not interested or involved in academic competition. It is common to see in a typical exam booklet, students attempting questions like this; 1a, 4c, 3b, 6c, 1c, 4b, 3a. Along the line you see an appeal note for leniency or prayer for you and family, how God will bless you and your family if you pass the student. Cheap emotional blackmail everywhere.

Why are many students not ready to study hard or take their lectures seriously? Apart from their uninterested or lazy disposition, the system is also encouraging them openly. Lecturers are told or warned that failure rate should not be more than 30 percent. So, what a student needs to score in a course is 20 percent in exam and 10 percent in continuous assessment. The system will take care of the rest, to enable the candidate get 40 or 45 percent. Lowering of academic standards have gotten to the post graduate levels. These students will eventually be future lecturers, administrators and political leaders. This country has a long way to go, in terms of development.

In conclusion, university managements across the nation should restrict the indiscriminate and unwholesome religious activities on their campuses. Before religious fanatics start attacking me, I need to state that I am also a Christian – a Catholic.

Finally, universities are not religious institutions; Simplicita!


B. C. Onuoha, Professor of Management and development activist, wrote from University of Port Harcourt, Sunday, April 5, 2026.

The Caucasian society replaced religious places with various government institutions that stimulate growth, both on personal and business level. Although they believe in God, they believe in innovation and development before anything.

These guys build 4 lane bridge in 6 months and completely change the whole environment, in Naija, it will take many years.

Too much spirituality weakens the motivation for society to be productive and improve.

QuinQQ:
What people like you don't get is that US greatness is NOT dependent on the dollar or "petro-dollar".
OK, let's say Yuan replaces the dollar, what's China's answer to all these worldwide "dollars" below:
Openness of society and freedom
Hollywood
Broadway
Jazz
Hip Hop
Rock and Roll
Country
Boxing championships
Western Media like Time, CNN
Basketbal Championships
Track Championships
Dominance in all sports except soccer
By far highest oil production and deposits
Just sucessfuly completed furthest human travel from earth
Everybody wanting to go to US including Chinese
Stable AND non-repressive govt
Melting pot with all the world fully represented
YouTube
Google
Facebok
Instagram
Twitter
WhatsApp
Linkin
Pintrest
Countless other apps
Advanced open AI companies
Microsoft
Apple
Iphone
Amazon
New York
Fed Ex
LA
DHL
Silicon Valley
Dallas
Hoiston
Miami
Chicago
Topmost uniiversities
Topmost hospitals
San Francisco
Boston
New Orleans
Colorado
Arizona
Tesla
GM
SpaceX
Chase
Citicorp
Starlink
Etc Etc
These are all worldwide elements just like the dollar. What's China's answer to all these??

Chat gpt

However, their financial domination has been threatened, as more options become apparent.

YoshihideSuga:
Hypnotise a cele member?
Come off it

I wonder oo

Some people can be so …

Christians believe in Jesus, and for over 2000 years, the name seems to be “alive”. Billions have been calling on the name for thousands of years and will still call for many more years to come. Even in time of split seconds danger, people call the name and people testify that the name does help change situations. Now looking at other religions, no other religion has a messiah whose followers actively call their name after thousands of years with confidence.

Advice is welcome, but my decision is final

You are laughing when manhood is manhooding ba? whichcraft behaviour

Black women are strong. Well, a strong black woman may prove too tough to handle by a Chad or Brad, who just wants peace and quiet, and they know it. As White people like intelligence and creativity, naturally, they would prefer a STEM graduate to the person that shakes her ass on online for money. Also, many bad behaviours displayed online by black women group confirms the stereotypical beliefs. Lastly, BBC factor.

Toto dey scratch Eve and she felt she needed Adam’s tool for the scratching

Nice tool. Apparently, it’s not suitable for the average Nigerian, only those that can afford it. With growth and adoption, you could have reps in the respective countries.

It’s most unfortunate, the country has problems, but too many of people have either evil or selfish intentions and it’s increasing everyday day. However, thanks to stable crypto currencies like USDT, one can manage the sending and receiving of funds independently.

NotSidestory:
So this girl that I love is getting married to someone else and I have not being my self since then. The thing that is hurting deeply is me imagining the person that will take her that means the (husband). Like having s*x with her not me . This days even focusing on my job is hard as I keep thinking that ,it is not possible to find someone like her.

I can't take it anymore.i did everything to forget about her but I can't. I feel like this is the end of my life. I sleep lately smoking just because of her but no any positive result. 😢

Pls what advice and motivation will you give me.

Who love epp strong your mind like a soldier who no dey love

Kalulu44:
Though I don't support what he did, but why should the Op lie to us about Tinubu looking youthful, or youthful now has other meaning

In my presence, this same sentence caused a very big fight between black and white. Just saying that anyone that utter that sentence indirectly signifies that they have an ugly character.

insidelife22:
He is looking like 🐒🐵🐒🐵🐒

Why do we blacks say things like this to each other knowing fully well you can’t create a single hair, not to talk of another human. if a white person says this to you, you’ll feel some type of way, but it’s the same sentence. Na why racism go dey go on, encouraging other groups of people to be saying rubbish.

So many people in pains, maybe they want them to turn that place to boxing ring arena so they can start fighting. It was a good outing as a nation.

He has paid his dues so he deserves his accolades. Literally, he is the embodiment of entrepreneurship. No matter where you are or choose to go, make money.

If a man removes the possibility of having sex with a particular woman completely from his mind, her power over him will drastically reduce. Possibility of sex is thing fooling many men.

As we are in this dimension, no one can escape time, but regarding humans, everyone has personal experience, views the world through their own eyes, and have hidden abilities, the uniqueness becomes apparent after two important moments are achieved.

When a person becomes who they were uniquely born to be (talent), and when that person starts to contribute those abilities to humanity.

For instance, imagine someone like Michael Jackson was never an artist, but an actor, or Anthony Joshua was an engineer instead of a boxer, the world wouldn’t have known them, and they wouldn’t have become special.

So the question becomes, as a human, a mini-god, what is your contribution to humanity?

Lightmykpoli:
This is a job in Europe which makes it funnier.

Now imagine applying for over 100 jobs and all are the same unfortunate response. Apart from stressful, it demoralising. It’s better to have a skill because no one can ever take that away from you, or a physical asset which is in demand and people use everyday.

Nothing that can’t be used for content

Good. More innovation, retention and implementation

Minister of darkness and power failure. No iota of aspiration to be like contemporary nations with 24/7 electricity, instead na only coronation, governorship and to embezzle full him head.

QuinQ:
How can ten foot men fit into a human female. We ought think sometimes

1 Enoch chapter 6,
Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.

1 Enoch chapter 7
And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells, who consumed all the acquisitions of men.

And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.

3000 cubits is over 4,500 feet which makes the giants over 1,370 meters, far taller than modern skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa at 828 meters.

Even at 300 cubits, this converts to 450 feet, which is roughly the height of a 40-story building.

EmekaStanley:
The Bible, aside its religious connotation, is such an interesting read. The historical value is more than a masterpiece.

So I'm reading the Chapter 6 of Genesis where Moses recorded that there was a time heavenly beings which I believe could be fallen angels, found human women attractive and started copulating with them, resulting to the production of very gigantic beings on the earth.

Because the seed was corrupt, this caused the spread of terrible sins on the earth prompting God to ask for the ark to be built, so he could destroy the earth with flood.

That story is thought-provoking. And here are a few things that pricked my mind while I scanned through that chapter;

1. Humans are actually very good looking. For angels to find women attractive means they'd never seen anything like them. I think humans may actually look physically more attractive than angels.

Again, note that even defiant angels found women attractive, not men.

This means the angels had manly features, and at a point could switch on human dimensions. I also think angels don't come in female forms. God didn't create female angels.

2. There might still be sprinkles of fallen angels on the earth. Are they still actively producing offspring with human women, I can't say because the Bible wasn't explicit about it.

But are there descendants still on the earth? Very possible. One way to know one who could be is by defying natural odds to do something very heroic and outstanding.

People who are also very extreme when it comes to doing bad things could also be descendants of those fallen angels.

3. God regretted creating man. You can imagine the level of wickedness that will make God regret creating a being that the Bible recorded was made in his image and likeness. It means the corruption of man and the level of wickedness then was abysmal.

Just imagine a mother looking at a child she labored to deliver and painfully regretting why she gave birth to the child.

This can be heartbreaking.

Again, I believe without any doubt that no level of atrocity on the earth is new, even now. I also think it may not have reached the peak it was before the destruction by flood, but it's getting there.

4. Noah's ark was actually longer than a FIFA standard football field. It was also 40ft high, 3 decking. That was definitely a wooden massive ship on the ocean.

5. The ocean is a different world on its own. Nothing in the ocean was destroyed. Only land animals needed to be saved from the flood.

I'm literally scared of what is in the ocean deep. Only God knows. But it's unimaginable what is there.

Anyways, just felt like sharing this as it dropped in mind after reading that chapter. Quite random I know.

But, what are your thoughts on that chapter?

Emeka Stanley.

Do you know the bible we have today, the one used by colonisers is a revised Bible? meaning they removed lots of important information from the bible.

The more complete Bible with many more books is The Ethiopian Bible. It was never edited or diluted, just wasn’t converted to english much.

In the Ethiopian Bible, it is said that the cast down angels have been bounded already, and are in the bottomless pit, courtesy of Angel Uriel.

Also the giants were very tall, like 10 story building, and at one point, they started to eat humans because they ate a lot.

It was this cry of the people that the angels saw and heard, that they decided to intercede on behalf of humans.

There is a lot of missing piece around the story and others.

Allocating blames to a sovereign entity for a nation’s actions even though its known that the entity is weak or what it once was is a lack of forsight, bordering around entitlement not even partnership.

Hustler = Italy.
That place na hustling ground

Stay there and get a second job or collect government benefit