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I still cringe at the fact that a person who was taught in English and wrote exams in English language from nursery to university BSC/masters degree level must "prove" that he can read and write in the same English language which also happens to be the Lingua Franca of Nigeria and the official language in every state.

Apart from the business model I don't see how this makes sense in 2025.

Then to make it worse, they put an expiry date to it. So if I pass writing and reading today will I suddenly forget how to read and write English in two/three years? Its rip off and these are the questions that our ministry of foreign affairs should be asking.

Perhaps we should also make foreigners that are applying for our visa to read and write in Hausa/Yoruba/Igbo etc before we give them visa??

xristos:
Op is saying... Toyota, peugeot, Hyundai, Honda etc..are also in the East(China) both new and Toks....why not import from there instead of always from the US/Canada

Valid reasoning..and I want answers too

Shipping cost is almost triple

LagosPrince:
president of your village in ogbomosho not Nigeria. even in ogbomosho, tinubu will lose because he's not loved in south west.

Tinubu do not have a cult-like followers like buhari, peter obi and atiku so where does he hope to get bloc votes from?
Don't tell me tinubu will get any support in the north because atiku and El rufai of ADC already got the north in the bag especially now that buhari Is no more .

He is banking on governors to do wike-style rigging for him. How the masses vote is less important to him than who is announced as the winner. Then he and his supporters will ask you to go to court where judges bought and paid for are waiting to finish the job. It's a Very familiar script

sailor2011:
ADC is not only sarcastic but dumb in it's attack....Nigeria is still in transition mode , so don't expect instant effects of government policies ...it will take a while to feel the positive impacts of PBATs policies...In a couple of years from now , Nigerians will be grateful that they had a progressive president like PBAT

Transition mode since 2015? Haha nau!!!!!

This was the same way buhari was ruining the economy while you people kept supporting him with false hope that his economic policies will transform Nigeria London.....same thing you are doing for Tinubu now. Una no dey learn?

Zooposki:
Very good. Next time the husband will think twice before beating the wife. Them no flog am well. Them for give the cane to the wife to flog him too.

There won't be a next time if the man is wise.
Unfortunately nobody knows the backstory

Nnaemiemax:
Genesis 14:19-20

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: and blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.


Malachi 3:8-10
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.


Those who have deep revelation and clear conviction about the impacts/benefits of tithing do not need any validation or logical inclination to do so.

The tithe that Abram gave was before he met God - it was a tradition and it was not even his own money. It was spoils of war and it was a one time offering - not monthly compulsory contribution as you were wrongly taught. He never gave another tithe after that.

Where you quoted in Malachi is directed to the priest who were stealing tithes contributions from members, not to the congregation who paid the tithe - a distinction that many pastors know but will not tell you.

Tithe was never money in the bible. If you see anywhere that tithe was paid with money in the bible please post it here let us see. It was foodstuffs that was mostly distributed to the Levites, priests and poor people

Only Levites working in the temple without land, paid jobs or possessions are qualified to receive tithe. Which of your pastor is a Levite from Israel and without landed property?

Lastly neither Jesus nor the apostle preached or collected tithes so I don't know where you guys learnt that doctrine.
New testament giving has no formula or percentage. Give willingly and cheerfully as unto God.

Am I saying you should not give tithe? Not at all. It's your money. However stop preaching it like it's a doctrine of salvation or prerequisite to enter heaven

Sirchiboy:
Parenthood is responsibilty not an avenue to breed kids in the hope of making them your retirement plan.
This is very common in African culture where parents make their kids their life time retirement.
Every parents should plan for their future retirement.
You can decide to support them once in a while but not a most it is your reponsiblity to cater for them in their old age.

Types like a true gen Z
You go soon learn when you grow up

zero8zero:
This is what you get when you're trying to use harassment and bullying to get the ticket. Someone who came in third position with less than two thousand votes in the north, bullying someone that came second. When you refused to respect yourself, people won't respect you either.

If they don't allow him Tinubu will win again then their eye go come clear. Atiku is a serial contester and is not likely to go far. He is old and might be worse than Tinubu In the long run

IGBOSON1:
Hehehehehe

Concerning this cloned Buhari issue, i've noticed lot of people are now using it to threaten...saying they will sing like a canary if they don't get their way! Or as with the case of Yahaya Bello and the last election......if they're not left TF alone!

Unfortunately majority of nigeriMs especially APC supporters prefer the convenient lie rather than asking questions. Oshiomole, Rocha's and yaya Bello are members of APC but APC supporters will rather believe lies

The truth will come out one day and I pray they have the humility to finally accept it. UK had the secret on bubu just like US currently knows the secret about your current occupant of also rock

Kobojunkie:
What about the terrible parents of the past who raised the terrible children of the past who have now become mothers? Are they not [b]the elders of today[/b]whose grandchildren have no real regard or respect for?

It is easy to blame the current generation while conveniently ignoring the fact that the problem started long ago with those you consider your elders, the ones who failed to stand up for their rights as individuals and those of their children. Respect is best when earned, not demanded.

You see this mantra of respect is earned is misleading so many of you. Respect for your parent and elders is not earned im the first instance.

You meet an elderly person in the train standing while you are sitting...you don't need the man do do anything extraordinary to "earn" your respect before you offer him a seat. This phrase has been abused so much that most of you use it as convenient excuse to be rude and disrespectful

Double0h7:
You couldn’t torture this confession out of me! 🤣🤣🤣

Lol sometimes I'm tempted to think that these stories are from comedy skits

Magnetic010:
Watch Nigerians turn it this into a biblical and spiritual hand of God thing

Oya na you wey be American shebi na finger of the devil

jmoore:
How is it fake? You wan change mouth?

Omo see receipt everywhere

17 more characters needed

Kastonkastroll:
if Peter obi isn't an akagum, nobody will bother him in LP. But the man stingy die

Stingy in what way? Is he supposed to dash his personal money to people who will still end up betraying him for the highest bidder?

Wealthoptulent:
BEST WHERE?
ADC no go see broad DAYLIGHT of 2027.. its a waste of TIME, ko lo FAR RARA... Association of Dangerous/DEAD CONTESTANTS aka ADC

This was exactly what PDP folks said about ACN and ANPP back in the day. History indeed always repeats itself

CoronaVirusPro:
You can’t be loading all those ballistic missiles into Israel without hurting yourself.

For a while Netanyahu to go beg for a ceasefire tells you Iran was ready to turn Israel into a car pack.

Iran! First country in the world to convert iron to wood.

Even Yemeni missile now strikes Israel easily. The wooden dome has been humiliated.

You desperately want the above story to be true so you can sleep well. Pele dear 🤣🤣

Samueltemi337:
So in other words God will still destroy some people and city with flood but not the whole world?

Read my last comment again. It was pretty clear. Thank you

Samantha125:
1. I have both health insurance and funeral policy.
4. Get a domestic staff or a monitoring spirit? I still have trust issues there, especially when it comes to my own gender, we're our own biggest enemies.

Lol
You are one of the few women who are bold enough to admit that last statement

Samueltemi337:
So the people that are consumed in the flooding we see today God is not merciful and compassionate to them?

The entire world was destroyed in Noah's days. Don't miquote the OP. God said he will not destroy the whole world with flood again and so far He has not.

Those who died in flood or plane crash or accident did not die because God is not merciful or because they are worse sinners than you and I

Aydot99:
If the rainbow was formed for the first time when God made this convenat with Noah this will have made sense but the rainbow had been in existence way before then.

Okay the poster showed us bible verse. What is your own evidence that rainbow existed before Noah?

I just want to learn o. I come in peace

Avedonn:
A rainbow is simply a natural phenomenon caused by the refraction, dispersion, and reflection of sunlight in water droplets. There is no religious meaning attached to it, so please do not interpret it through scripture or attribute any spiritual significance to it.

Oga scientist you are correct
The religious people are also correct

albacete:
Help meet or help mate?
This should be up to 40 characters s, right?

The king James translation says help "meet" meaning a help that is "suitable"

Smartcitizen:
See this one o!

So Yorubas are too friendly to Igbos I guess?

You must be a joker......

I want to give you an assignment, just pretend to be an Igbo man who wants to buy a property in any area in your region where you are not known and come back to tell us your experience.

I remember the horrible experience my younger brother had when he was building his house around Aja area Lagos State. He was so harassed by your omonile that I almost told him to forget about that building even when he has all the certified documentation from government of lands in LAGOS to build.

How many times have you people destroy and burn down Igbos shops in your region, but were they deterred?

Can you tell me how many average Yorubas has properties in the far north or inside Niger Delta?

Your people are not good in taking risk outside your region, so please don't come here to blame anyone for your lifestyle.

We have already chosen a life of determination in every part of Nigeria we choose to live not minding any nonsense thrown at us so don't come here to blame us when we succeed after taking all these risks.


👍👍

Pele o international risk taker 🤣🤣🤣
Your long turenchi further butress the fact that you guys have a lot of learning to do

Sharpsharp00123:
Like seriously I support Tinubu today but I must b sincere, shetima was highly complicit in d Chibok girl issue


They used that Chibok girl issue to rubbish Jonathan government but it was allowed because Jonathan was a weakling who never prepared for power but had it on a platter of gold.



Security report says the girls will b kidnapped if they write d exam but instead of Jonathan to act fast n close d School indefinitely he was relying on shetima who was d mastermind of the attack

They really did Jonathan dirty, it was too bad but he too was too weak

Tinubu can't take that n that's what they know n that's y they are giving him problem.

Jonathan was not weak but you are entitled to your opinion. That line is stale please

Softmirror:
But hope you can all see that it is mere fantastic illusion about all the noise that Peter Obi won the last Election otherwise why are you all begging Atiku to surrender his constitutional right for Obi?

If Peter Obi is confident and it was true he won the last election and Nigerians wanted him badly as president then and still want him today but was rigged out, Peter Obi should contest on his own, on the platform of Labour Party.

After all when Joe Biden won, we saw the kind of reaction in the United States by his supporters who allegeded electoral misconducts. And because Trump was confident that he would win again to prove that he actually won Joe but was rigged in the America election for President, Donald Trump recontested and won fair and square.The American people who voted for him but were robbed of their votes, voted for him again.

I don't understand why almost everyone of you is begging Atiku to surrender his candidacy or to merge together when you claim Peter Obi was rigged out to 3rd position. It doesn't project your beliefs and claims that he won even above Atiku let alone Tinubu except empty noise about a choice of illusion. EMPTY NOISE DON'T WIN ELECTIONS!

Nobody is begging Atiku really.

Atiku made a mistake in choosing his running mate last time which divided the southern vote. If Atiku had picked Obi he would havwon easily.

It will be 2023 all over again unless the two of them reach some form of compromise to support the same ticket. It's either Obi contest as vice president or Atiku can decide to nominate a running mate for Obi while playing the elder statesman.
However it pans out there must be no division among these two if not let's just start preparing to swear in Tinubu again

That's my reading of the situation though

Empiree:
I thought you guys said your Jesus didn't lift ⚔️ sword needless to use it to k!ll people?


But you are here celebrating b💣💣💣b to k!ll people.

In your religion you also believe the theory of "love your enemies"., "turn the other cheek"?. But you are here celebrating offensive wars by the people who don't believe in your Jesus. Dont you have any shame?.

B-2 is not new to the people in the region. The US has used it many times and nothing has changed. It is only matter of time before Iran or Houthis shut it down from the sky.

E pain this one! You think Israelis and Americans will fold their arms like northern Christians?

DeepSight:
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What a pity. If only you had an idea of how both men look down on black people.

Everything is not about us blacks

Pretty much every other race looks down on blacks? Why won't they look on a country that keep electing inept politicians that cannot develop their country or better the lives of their people?

Image123:
i believe you must have been in this service to assert what exactly transpired with such surety as the OP doesn't say. Now, cajole cannot be force, but almost opposite. This is simple English vocabulary. Na you dey hand out reward na.

There is no vocabulary here at all....

This format by preachers is as old as Christianity itself. I have seen this in congregations more time than I can count. And yes, any money you give out of emotion because someone paint a picture of Baba ijebu lotto or threaten you with curses has no reward. You have received your reward already.

I will not join those who encourage such pastors. As every man purposed in his heart let him give....

Na dem....Zero federal character!


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MyExpression:
You guys don't understand foreign diplomacy.

People live in closed communities when they go abroad.
The Peckham, Sabon geri, Ama-hausa, even the Chinese have this Pink painted empire/estate around Berger.

Everyone still lives under the national law...and they pay tax as due...and you still have freedom to enter those places...but all lands there have been duly acquired from the government or ceded to those aboriginals by the government.

So what is your point. Is this happening in Ghana or UK. British people colonized Nigerians including yoribas so it's understandable if Yorubas have a neighbourhood there. Did Ghanians colonize Igbos or what is the relationship that would warrant someone declaring himself as Eze in Ghana