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How PEJ use talk am Dat year

"Born and troway

What happened at first leg repeat itself in today champion league scores in both matches

His statement alone remind one Greek mythology though I have forgotten the name.

Buratai should mind his words because he his not the one to decide but the creator

davidif:
Hahaha nope! You tried it but you are wrong.

OK your opinion bro

Hmm this is strong, U won chop con clean mouth plus promise join. For marriage this kain tyme WA babes no de take marriage play.

The elders must hear this

Everyday for the thief one day for the owner of the house. But wait oh, na mosque of all places.

Chikelue2000:
help me tell dis muslims in d north. Always thinking nonsense

Trump hates islam, so?, u expect him to allow people kill usa citizen?

Hmm

CROWNWEALTH019:
GOD BLESS AMERICA....

Ok

If Africa have a leader like Donald Trump believe me our continent would have been golden ahead of others

Trump to sign new travel ban

Story highlights

The order will make clear that lawful permanent residents are excluded from any travel ban

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday banning immigration from six Muslim-majority countries, notably dropping Iraq from January's previous order.

The new travel ban comes six weeks after Trump's original executive order was rolled out to chaos and confusion at airports nationwide, and eventually blocked by a federal court.

The ban covers Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

Iraq will "increase cooperation with the US government on the vetting of its citizens applying for a visa to travel to the United States," according to an administration fact sheet.

The rollout of the revised travel ban marks an important moment for the administration, which has little room for error after the chaotic debut of the original plan.

The failure raised questions about the new White House's capacity to govern and to master the political intricacies needed to manage complicated political endeavors in Washington. It also brought Trump into conflict with the judiciary in the first sign of how constitutional checks and balances could challenge his vision of a powerful presidency built on expansive executive authority.

The order makes clear that lawful permanent residents (otherwise known as green card holders) are excluded from any travel ban, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on "Fox and Friends" Monday. Also those with validly issued visas will also be exempt from the ban.

The original order barred citizens from seven countries from entering the US for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halted refugees from Syria.

It came under intense criticism as an attempt to bar Muslims from entering the country, and Trump's call during the campaign for a "Muslim Ban" was cited in court cases attacking the ban.

Administration officials Monday stressed they do not see the ban as targeting a specific religion.
"(The order is) not any way targeted as a Muslim ban ... we want to make sure everyone understands that," an official told reporters.

When it comes to refugees, the new order does not prioritize religious minorities when considering refugee admissions cases, the official said.

All refugees will be be barred for 120 days. The previous version had banned Syrian refugees indefinitely.
Working to contain fallout

The newly crafted order also revealed that the administration wasn't just paying attention to the legal criticism in the courts, but also recalibrating in light of the heavy political fire they faced after the first order's messy rollout.

While administration lawyers argued the original travel ban went into effect immediately to prevent terrorists from rushing into the country, the revised ban will phase in after 10 days.

White House officials also collaborated for several weeks with officials at the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and kept congressional leaders apprised of their progress this time around after the White House drew a backlash for keeping Congress and relevant federal agencies almost entirely in the dark during the first rollout.

To bolster its national security claims, the new executive order will also include information that the FBI has reported that approximately 300 persons who entered the United States as refugees are "currently the subjects of counter-terrorism investigations," the administration officials told reporters.

The White House also abandoned the sense of urgency with which it implemented the first travel ban, delaying the signing of a new executive order multiple times over the last three weeks. Politics also came into play as White House officials delayed the signing from last Wednesday in part to allow positive coverage of the president's joint address to Congress to continue uninterrupted.
"We want the (executive order) to have its own 'moment,'" a senior administration official told CNN last week.

Why Iraq was removed

But the new order was also delayed in part because of a debate within the administration over how to handle Iraq.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and national security adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster had all advocated for Iraq to be removed from the Trump administration's list of banned countries in the new executive order for diplomatic reasons, including Iraq's role in fighting ISIS, sources told CNN's Elise Labott and Evan Perez. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly also supported the move.

Iraq was removed from the revised travel ban executive order after intensive lobbying from the Iraqi government at the highest levels, according to a senior US official.
That included a phone call between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on February 10 and an in-person conversation between Abadi and Vice President Mike Pence in Munich on February 18.

Those conversations were followed by discussions between Tillerson and members of the Iraqi government about vetting measures in place that would prevent suspected terrorists from leaving Iraq and coming to the United States. Iraq did not implement new measures; rather, the country provided more detail to US officials about how it screens travelers.

In Trump's call with Abadi, the President vowed to seek a resolution to his counterpart's concerns about his citizens' being unable to enter the United States, according to a readout of the phone call from Baghdad. The US official said Trump asked Tillerson to get greater clarity on vetting measures in Iraq.

Trump also faced pressure to remove Iraq from the order from some American national security officials, who argued the restriction burdened a key anti-ISIS partner. Some of those voices were holdovers from the Obama administration.

Source :
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/06/politics/trump-travel-ban-iraq/index.html?adkey=bn

luvmijeje:
Please don't derail this thread. If you have issue you want to raise, kindly open a new thread.

luvmijeje please allow him to express his view.

yes Jesus exist.

Allow him into your life,then you will witness his presence

By Hamisu Muhammad who was in Sokoto | Publish Date: Mar 6 2017 2:40AM

The sudden slide of the US dollar and other foreign currencies has made export to neighbouring countries such as Niger Republic, Burkina Faso and Chad unattractive, traders have said.



Visits to Tsohuwar Kasuwa and other markets in Sokoto recently revealed that the number of trucks that load goods to Niger and Burkina Faso on daily basis has dropped drastically from about 20 to about five trucks.

Merchants from the neighbouring countries had taken advantage of the depreciation of the naira in recent times to ship more goods out of the country with little amount of their currencies, especially the CFA.

Local traders who spoke to our reporter said merchants from neighbouring countries no longer found it attractive to exchange a CFA at N62 to do business in Nigeria even as the price of the goods still remained high at their markets.

Alhaji Usman Salihu Mai Sugar, told our reporter that patronage by the merchants dropped since last week when the naira began to appreciate, adding “Before now there was hardly space here, even to pass was difficult.”

He said some of the reasons why the export business has gotten less attractive was “Because we are still selling the old stocks in the market; the appreciation of naira is yet to bring down prices in the market.”

Ismaila Illela said some of his customers at Niger told him they were studying the market for now before returning to Nigeria.
The naira appreciated by about 20 percent since February 21 after the Central Bank of Nigeria released some new rules on the forex market.
Some Nigerians expressed joy over the naira appreciation hoping that things would get better in the nearest future.

The naira jumped by about 18 percent at the parallel market - from N520 on February 23, to N425 a dollar Wednesday. However, some reports said the local currency closed the week at about 465 a dollar.

Read more @http://www.nairausd.com/2017/03/as-naira-gains-neighbouring-countries.html

VeniJu:
You have this assorted delicacies served, but can only choose one...
#Team_mum.

Y you won confuse people. Op you wicked

WA that EFCC guy make he/she see this one

Thanks op because I have been trying to understand what all the family tree mean to me.

We learn daily

Thanks to Nairaland forum And Nairalanders you all have in a way teach me alot.

True but to all corners.

Op get ready for them ( feminist) .

Prepare your sword and shield

Hmm hmm the elders have spoken

pocohantas:
Serious competition from MISTRESS?
Okay...they'll read and learn.
It's okay to do these things for ones husband, but the least of reasons should be for fear of a MISTRESS.

When a man cheats
NL comments:
Poster 1: Do you dress sexy? Are you overweight, lose weight. Wear red pant and bra. Have sex with him.
Poster 2: Pray for him.
Poster 3: Madam it seems you nag a lot, men hate nags.
Poster 4: A man that will cheat would cheat.
Poster 5 quotes poster 4: Feminist!!!

Woman cheats:
Poster1: You can never satisfy women!
Poster 2: Wives of these days are oloshos, except our mothers.
Poster 3: Just send her back to her father's house, are you sure the kids are yours?
Poster 4: Talk to your wife, maybe there was a void.
Poster 5 quotes poster 4: only a woman will type this. Olosho!

Una wehdone o!

Kai! She de here

Richy4:
How I wish that the world of Adults will be as innocent as those pic

Story. U are sitting on a long thing

Believe me Life is beautiful ( good )

luvmijeje:
Indeed it is.

You are welcome

Women Must Earn Less Than Men,' Polish Politician Says

https://www.nairaland.com/3662079/women-must-earn-less-than

luvmijeje:
Kindly accept my apologies. Let me re-direct my questions to the Atheist.

Who am not to accept your apology.

Remember what our Lord told us

Life is beautiful ( good )

luvmijeje:
Are you sure, you're a Christian? No true Christian will post a thread denying the existence of Christ.

Anyway since you are the OP, you can still answer my questions.

Read the post again.

I am not denying Christ but for atheist to see some proof because some of them with the view try to proof order wise

mu2sa2:
The traditional council is being lawless by seeking to exercise powers it doesn't have. The constitution guarantees freedom of movement and the tradition council cannot prevent anyone from enjoying his constitutional right.

What of his offence

luvmijeje:
Your premise lies on the above quoted statement. Let's break it down.
Timothy Freke(who incidentally is human) read a text book written by incidentally again by another human being.

Are you still following me? Timothy freke saw a drawing on a third century amulet of an unclad man and he came to a conclusion that Jesus is a myth.. .. hmmm

As an Atheist did you bother asking the following questions before you open this thread:

Is the text book truly written in the 3rd century?

If it's, what's the evidence it's truly written in the 3rd century?

Who wrote the textbook?

Have you gone through the textbook at least you've seen the Bible even if you've gone through it?

What's the evidence the drawing predate the crucifixion of Jesus?

Who's Anthony Freke?

What are his other works that he has done apart from making a declarative statement from other people's work?

I think there is a mistake somewhere, you assumed that I am atheist. Sorry sis l am a Christian.

Why l posted such was for those that of view that JESUS CHRIST doesn't exist is for them to read and think over his existence.

Happy Sunday

chiedu7:
Jesus did not come to amend the law but to fulfil it.

Matthew 5:17 [Full Chapter]
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

No wonder dem dey fool you.

Thanks for the correction on the part of amend instead of fulfil.

But he ought to respect traditional law because the throne deserve respect

mu2sa2:
No one has the right to banish a citizen of Nigeria from any part of the country. If the man has committed any offence he should be charged to court, but the traditional council has no legal authority to ban the him from tiv land. They are just bluffing. The man should ignore them.

Are you saying we should disrespect traditional rules and regulations because of white man rule.

Respect your tradition and moved forward.

What we should amend instead of abolish is inhumane rules and regulations our forefathers set to govern themselves

REMEMBER EVEN JESUS CHRIST said" I didn't come to abolish the law instead l came to amend it.

Happy Sunday to you

The stone that proves Pilate's existence

Story highlights

Christians around the world almost universally agree that Jesus existed

But some claim Jesus was no more than a myth created for a "teaching story"

Timothy Freke was flipping through an old academic book when he came across a religious image that some would call obscene.

It was a drawing of a third-century amulet depicting a naked man nailed to a cross. The man was born of a virgin, preached about being "born again" and had risen from the dead after crucifixion, Freke says.

But the name on the amulet wasn't Jesus. It was a pseudonym for Osiris-Dionysus, a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture. Freke says the amulet was evidence of something that sounds like sacrilege -- and some would say it is: that Jesus never existed. He was a myth created by first-century Jews who modeled him after other dying and resurrected pagan gods, says Freke, author of "The Jesus Mysteries: Was the 'Original Jesus' a Pagan God?"

"If I said to you that there was no real Good Samaritan, I don't think anyone would be outraged," says Freke, one of a group of mythicists who say Jesus never existed. "It's a teaching story. What we're saying is that the Jesus story is an allegory. It's a parable of the spiritual journey."

Most Jesus deniers are Internet kooks, says Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar who recently released a book devoted to the question called "Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth."

He says Freke and others who deny Jesus' existence are conspiracy theorists trying to sell books.

"There are people out there who don't think the Holocaust happened, there wasn't a lone JFK assassin and Obama wasn't born in the U.S.," Ehrman says.

"Among them are people who don't think Jesus existed."

Does it matter if Jesus existed?

Some Jesus mythicists say many New Testament scholars are intellectual snobs.

"I don't think I'm some Internet kook or Holocaust denier," says Robert Price, a former Baptist pastor who argues in "Deconstructing Jesus" that a historical Jesus probably didn't exist. "They say I'm a bitter ex-fundamentalist. It's pathetic to see this character assassination. That's what people resort to when they don't have solid arguments."

The debate over Jesus' existence has led to a curious role reversal. Two of the New Testament scholars who are leading the way arguing for Jesus' existence have a reputation for attacking, not defending, traditional Christianity.

Ehrman, for example, is an agnostic who has written books that argue that virtually half of the New Testament is forged. Another defender of Jesus' existence is John Dominic Crossan, a New Testament scholar who has been called a heretic because his books challenge some traditional Christian teaching

But as to the existence of Jesus, Crossan says, he's "certain." He says some Jesus deniers may be people who have a problem with Christianity.

"It's a way of responding to something you don't like," Crossan says. "We can't say that Obama doesn't exist, but we can say that he's not an American. If we're talking about Obama in the future, there are people who might not only say he wasn't American, but he didn't even exist."

Does it even matter if Jesus existed? Can't people derive inspiration from his teachings whether he actually walked the Earth? Crossan says Jesus' existence matters in the same way that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s existence mattered. If King never existed, people would say his ideas are lovely, but they could never work in the real world, Crossan says.

It's the same with an historical Jesus, Crossan writes in his latest book, "The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus."

"The power of Jesus' historical life challenges his followers by proving at least one human being could cooperate fully with God. And if one, why not others? If some, why not all?"

The evidence against Jesus' existence

Those who argue against Jesus' existence make some of these points:
The uncanny parallels between pagan stories in the ancient world and the stories of Jesus.

No credible sources outside the Bible say Jesus existed.

The Apostle Paul never referred to a historical Jesus.
Price, author of "Deconstructing Jesus," says the first-century Western world was full of stories of a martyred hero who is called a son of God.

"There are ancient novels from that period where the hero is condemned to the cross and even crucified, but he escapes and survives it," Price says. "That looks like Jesus."

Those who argue for the existence of Jesus often cite two external biblical sources: the Jewish historian Josephus who wrote about Jesus at the end of the first century and the Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote about Jesus at the start of the second century. But some scholars say Josephus' passage was tampered with by later Christian authors. And Price says the two historians are not credible on Jesus.

"Josephus and Tacitus -- they both thought Hercules was a true figure," Price says. "Both of them spoke of Hercules as a figure that existed."

Price concedes that there were plenty of mythical stories that were draped around historical figures like Caesar. But there's plenty of secular documentation to show Caesar existed.

"Everything we read about Jesus in the gospels conforms to the mythic hero," Price says. "There's nothing left over that indicates that he was a real historical figure."

Those who argue for the existence of Jesus cite another source: the testimony of the Apostle Paul and Jesus' early disciples. Paul even writes in one New Testament passage about meeting James, the brother of Jesus. These early disciples not only believed Jesus was real but were willing to die for him. People don't die for myths, some biblical scholars say.

They will if the experience is powerful enough, says Richard Carrier, author of "Proving History." Carrier says it's probable that Jesus never really existed and that early Christians experienced a mythic Jesus who came to them through visions and revelations.

Two of the most famous stories in the New Testament -- the conversion of Paul and the stoning death of Stephen, one of the first Christian martyrs - show that people seized by religious visions are willing to die, Carrier says. In both the Paul and Stephen stories, the writers say that they didn't see an actual Jesus but a heavenly vision of Jesus, Carrier says.

People "can have powerful religious experiences that don't correspond to reality," Carrier says.
"The perfect momodel is Paul himself," Carrier says. "He never met Jesus. Paul only had an encounter with this heavenly Jesus. Paul is completely converted by this religious experience, but no historical Jesus is needed for that to happen."

As for the passage where Paul says he met James, Jesus' brother, Carrier says:
"The problem with that is that all baptized Christians were considered brothers of the Lord."
The evidence for Jesus' existence
Some scholars who argue for the existence of Jesus says the New Testament mentions actual people and events that are substantiated by historical documents and archaeological discoveries.

Ehrman, author of "Did Jesus Exist?" scoffed at the notion that the ancient world was full of pagan stories about dying deities that rose again. Where's the proof? he asks. Ehrman devoted an entire section of his book to critiquing Freke, the mythicist and author of "The Jesus Mysteries: Was the 'Original Jesus' a Pagan God?" who says there was an ancient Osiris-Dionysus figure who shares uncanny parallels to Jesus.

He says Freke can't offer any proof that an ancient Osiris figure was born on December 25, was crucified and rose again. He says Freke is citing 20th- and 19th-century writers who tossed out the same theories. Ehrman says that when you read ancient stories about mythological figures like Hercules and Osiris, "there's nothing about them dying and rising again."

"He doesn't know much about ancient history," Ehrman says of Freke. "He's not a scholar. All he knows is what he's read in other conspiracy books."

Craig A. Evans, the author of "Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence," says the notion that Paul gave his life for a mythical Jesus is absurd. He says the New Testament clearly shows that Paul was an early enemy of the Christian church who sought to stamp out the burgeoning Jesus movement.

"Don't you think if you were in Paul's shoes, you would have quickly discovered that there was no Jesus?" Evans asks. "If there was no Jesus, then how did the movement start?"

Evans also dismissed the notion that early Christians blended or adopted pagan myths to create their own mythical Jesus. He says the first Christians were Jews who despised everything about pagan culture.

"For a lot of Jewish people, the pagan world was disgusting," Evans says. "I can't imagine [the Gospel writer] Matthew making up a story where he is drawing parallels between Jesus' birth and pagan stories about Zeus having sex with some fair maiden."

The words of Jesus also offer proof that he actually existed, Evans says. A vivid personality practically bursts from the pages of the New Testament: He speaks in riddles, talks about camels squeezing through the eye of a needle, weeps openly and even loses his temper. Evans says he is a man who is undeniably Jewish, a genius who understands his culture but also transcends his tradition with gem-like parables.

"Who but Jesus could tell the Parable of the Good Samaritan?" Evans says. "Where does this bolt of lightning come from? You don't get this out of an Egyptian myth."
Those who argue against the existence of Jesus say they aren't trying to destroy people's faith.

"I don't have any desire to upset people," says Freke. "I do have a passion for the truth. ... I don't think rational people in the 20th century can go down a road just on blind faith."

"Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."

And what did they see: a person, a pagan myth or a savior?

Albert Schweitzer, a 20th-century theologian and missionary, suggested that there will never be one answer to that

MrMelody:
Any one Who has no concern for his brother is not capable of love. If we love one another, We Will have concern.

I understand what you meant by that but don't you think he is happy that way beside your worries be disturb him.