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You're not slow sir... U're completely inefficient

u try. Lmao

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So i'm going to spend my birthday (march 19) at the camp? Wtf?

babyosisi: Let her change name
Tiwa means to break things in Igbo
Thugs in Onitsha are sometimes referred to as Ndi Ntiwa then to make matters worse her nickname is tiwantiwa

Her name may be drawing danger to her
She should change to Favor
If a man named lateef becomes a robber should anyone be shocked?
On a lighter note whenever I see that name Barrister Bamidele Aturu,Aturu means sheep,laff no dey gree me
Then governor amosun
Amosu is witch
Olaniyi nko,olaniyi means useless fellow
LNGKMD

ret*ard she's yoruba. Tiwa in her language means ours/our own. So each time u find out ur name means something bad in another language u have to di a change of name? U be f*ol

SamConquer: TORINO:LORD Jagara,what can u say about this model.. LORD JAGARA:Who is she?cos ryt now am confused abt the numba of those wanabe celebrity TORINO:But looking at the picture is she beautiful my LORD? LORD JAGARALooking hystericaly)..Look for her and bring her,she wil make a good 'plate washer'.to join the maids. TORINOSuprise)AS UR LORD WISHES

**yawns** You need 6 months training under the tutorlage of redmusquito

atuboweke: Some of these ofe mmanu guys ranting out here are not even from Lagos State. I was in Ondo state last weekend for a friend"s trad marriage. I was shocked with what i saw, the area was so remote with mud houses and bushes. and so is the same with most yeriba states. so whats the noise about Lagos. Lagos should even be better than it is considering that it was the nations capital for a long period.

Lmao The same ondo with mud houses is the 13th on the list of states when ranked in terms of their GDPs. Your Enugu is 25, Anambra is 16th while Ebonyi is 34. I guess mud houses aint that bad after all.

Lmao R2bees can go and hump a porcupine. Hehe

Buc: The reason the SW would never support the secession of the SE is because it terrifies them to remain with the Fulanis and I don't blame them,even the thought of it makes me feel pity for them. And history thought us the Fulanis had a hand in the collapse of their greatest kingdom and empire(Oyo empire) and probably would ve conquered them outright if not for the coming of the Europeans.

You're a fool. The fulanis were defeated. The only advantage they had was their calvary which were not effective in the Hills around Oyo town and Ibadan. Their victory stopped at Ilorin. Next time if u don't know something then don't say anything about it

Cunninlingus: An Awo policy that led to a Pyrrhic victory and the establishment of a Caliphate(northern Islamic oligarchy) and an incompetent corrupt civil service populated by the SW.

The shackles of such tribal and religious guided governance began to break when Obasanjo made tribalism and religious affiliation take a back seat in his appointments of key officials and Ministers. Then came Yaradua , who took us back to the 70's with a hausa/fulani dominated cabinet.

Your hatred for Awolowo has beclouded your sense of reasoning. So it was Awo that ceded bakassi to Cameroun? Keep exhibiting your folly

this yeye journalists sef. it was block six. there's nothing like block c

Isreal got captured Gaza during the 6 days war. Palestine is only suffering as a result of their participation in that war. Other Arab countries should think well before going to war with the Isreal

Hehe this is phucking hilarious... Rotlmao... Just trying to picture the whole scenario... My roomie thinks i'm going mad. Hehe

modicum: Why Are They Really Keeping Birthdays


So the next question we should be ask ourselves, why is “Christian Groups” keeping “Birthdays” well you would be surprised to learn that there pagan in origin, and it was never been the custom of the kingdom of Israel or any of the New Testament churches to practice this so why are Christian who claim to love the word of God doing such practices but as human beings we do all love gifts there is nothing evil in giving and celebrating life’s beginnings, but what is wrong is we are only command to keep the Passover and the holy days, which is set in stone and written in the heavens form the beginning of time and in the cycles of time, and days months in short?

So it’s high time we covered this and what does the bible teach on the first recorded birthday in bible history was pharaoh’s birthday in Ancient Egypt that is the first recorded in the bible?

But there is many records outside the bible of people who kept birthdays.

Birthdays: Pagan/Occult Origins in the Satanic Bible
Bible does not necessarily endorse anything outside or beyond the testimony against the pagan practice of birthday keeping in, or from, any of the information or sources quoted in this article.

There is an affinity of such commemoration among the wicked as recorded in The Satanic Bible (Anton Szandor LaVey, (Air) Book of Lucifer – The Enlightenment, Avon Books, 1969, Ch XI, "Religious Holidays," p. 96) regarding Birthdays:

Quote from the satanic bible: "The highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birthday. This is in direct contradiction to the holy of holy days of other religions, which deify a particular god who has been created in an anthropomorphic form of their own image, thereby showing that the ego is not really buried. The Satanist feels: ‘Why not really be honest and if you are going to create a god in your image, why not create that god as yourself."

Every man is a god if he chooses to recognize himself as one. So, the Satanist celebrates his own birthday as the most important holiday of the year. After all, aren’t you happier about the fact that you were born than you are about the birth of someone you have never even met? Or for that matter, aside from religious holidays, why pay higher tribute to the birthday of a president or to a date in history than we do to the day we were brought into this greatest of all worlds? Despite the fact that some of us may not have been wanted, or at least were not particularly planned, we’re glad, even if no one else is, that we’re here! You should give yourself a pat on the back, buy yourself whatever you want, treat yourself like the king (or god) that you are, and generally celebrate your birthday with as much pomp and ceremony as possible."

It is interesting that birthdays are considered the most important holiday to these Satan worshipers (the founding of their “Church”, called Walpurgisnacht, and Halloween are the other ones of importance to them).

Of course, early Christians did not celebrate birthdays nor did the early Jews. Nor have real Christians ever celebrated Halloween.

Origen of Alexandria, writing over two centuries after the death of Messiah follows this same line when he recorded a diatribe against the memories of birthdays, indicating that at the time of his writing, a day to remember the birth of the Messiah was not part of the church calendar. In his Homilies on Leviticus, speaking on the aspect of birth, Origen states:

", not one from all the saints is found to have celebrated a festive day or a great feast on the day of his birth. No one is found to have had joy on the day of the birth of his son or daughter. Only sinners rejoice over this kind of birthday. For indeed we find in the Old Testament Pharaoh, king of Egypt, celebrating the day of his birth with a festival, and in the New Testament, Herod. However both of them stained the festival of his birth by shedding human blood, But the saints not only do not celebrate a festival on their birth days, but, filled with the Holy Spirit, they curse that day (after the example of Job, Jeremiah and David)." (Barkley, Homilies on Leviticus: 1–16 / Origen, 1990, 156.)
Birthdays Celebration are only Recorded in 3 Places in the Whole Bible

(N.I.V)
Genesis 40:20 Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:

Matthew 14:6 On Herod's birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for them and pleased Herod so much

Mark 6:21 Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for
his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

(K.J.V)
Genesis 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

Matthew 14:6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Mark 6:21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
What is the origin of birthday celebrations?
Birthday celebrations are actually rooted in paganism.

The Encyclopaedia Americana (1991 edition) states:
"The ancient world of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Persia celebrated the birthdays of gods, kings, and nobles."
Authors Ralph and Adelin Linton reveal the underlying reason for this. In their book The Lore of Birthdays, they write:

"Mesopotamia and Egypt, the cradles of civilization, were also the first lands in which men remembered and honoured their birthdays. The keeping of birthday records was important in ancient times principally because a birth date was essential for the casting of a horoscope."

So, there is a direct connection between the Pagan practice of birthday celebrations and astrology (horoscopes and fortune telling).

Not surprisingly then, the ancient Jews did not celebrate birthdays, regarding them as Pagan.

Also, The World Book Encyclopaedia (volume 3, page 416) states:
"The early Christians did not celebrate His [the Messiah's] birth because they considered the celebration of anyone's birth to be a pagan custom."
Down to the fourth century Christianity rejected the birthday celebration as a pagan custom.

To satiate this point, notice also the record of the first century historian Josephus: The Jews in the Messiah’s day knew “Yahweh’s” attitude toward birthday celebrations, “Nay, indeed, the law does not permit us to make festivals at the births of our children” (Flavius Josephus, Against Apion, Book II, section 26).
History of Celebration of Birthdays in the West
It is thought that the large-scale celebration of birthdays in Europe began with the cult of Mithras, which originated in Persia but was spread by soldiers throughout the Roman Empire. Before this, such celebrations were not common; and, hence, practices from other contexts such as the Saturnalia were adapted for birthdays. Because many Roman soldiers took to Mithraism, it had a wide distribution and influence throughout the empire, (Wikipedia. Birthdays. July 12, 2007 version).
Christmas is also relevant because December 25th was the day of celebration of the birthday of the sun-god Mithra.

The World Book Encyclopaedia Notes,

"Christmas, In 354 A.D., Bishop Liberius of Rome ordered the people to celebrate on December 25. He probably chose this date because the people of Rome already observed it as the Feast of Saturn, celebrating the birthday of the sun" (Sechrist. Christmas. World Book Encyclopaedia, Volume 3. 1966, pp. 408-417).
Long ago, the average person never paid any attention whatsoever to the anniversary of their birth. The initial pattern that developed concerned the celebrating of the birthday of their deity, once each year, at the winter solstice. This is the origin of Christmas, since the winter solstice was considered the "Re-birth" or "Birthday" of the solar deity (Natalis Sol Invictus, or the Nativity of Sol, the unconquerable). This alone marks the behaviour as originating from the rebellion against “Yahweh”, Who is the one and only Elohim of Heaven and Earth. Remember that “Yahweh” commanded that we not learn the ways of the heathen (Duat. 12).

Later, people began to celebrate the annual birth of their king at the same time as their deity, aligning their ruler with the same honors given to their deity. In their minds, their ruler became an anthropomorphic version of their deity. In the east, average people slowly began to celebrate their personal "birth day" once each year on what they believed to be "new year's day." Eventually, people developed the custom of observing their personal birth day on the annual day they were actually born.

Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the Church. Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it from their lists of feasts; Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Lev. Hom. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday; Arnobius (VII, 32 in P.L., V, 1264) can still ridicule the "birthdays" of the gods.

In their essay titled Birthdays, Jewishly, Lisa Farber Miller and Sandra Widener point out that the Encyclopaedia Judaica is very blunt on this topic:
"The Celebration of Birthdays is Unknown in Traditional Jewish Ritual."

Originally, even as more and more Gentiles began to profess the Messiah (so much so that they outnumbered those of Jewish heritage that did), the early Gentile leaders also did not endorse the celebration of birthdays. No early church writer endorsed the observance of birthdays by Christians, nor are they ever listed in the early observances of the Christian church.

Therefore, the celebration of birthdays, was clearly not part of "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).
No early religious/church writing from the second century that I have seen (and I have read most that are available) seems to endorse (or even suggest) the celebration of birthdays by any who professed the Messiah.

Although he was not part of the Ecclesia of “Yahweh” God, the writings of the early third century Catholic theologian Origen of Alexandria show that even that late, Orthodox Catholics were against the celebration of birthdays. The Catholic Encyclopaedia states:
"Origen, glancing perhaps at the discreditable imperial Natalitia, asserts (in Lev. Hom. viii in Migne, P.G., XII, 495) that in the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday" (Martindale C. Christmas, 1908).

Christmas is coming! Quite so: but what is "Christmas?" Does not the very term itself denote it's source -- "Christ-mass." Thus it is of Roman origin, brought over from paganism. But, says someone, Christmas is the time when we commemorate the Savior's birth. It is? And WHO authorized such commemoration? Certainly “Yahweh” God did not.

The Messiah bade his disciples "remember" him in his death, but there is not a word in scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, which tells us to celebrate his birth. Moreover, who knows the exact time when, he was born but the calendar around the time of the month of “Nissan in the Hebrew Calendar” or better known as the Sacred Calendar is in what month, he was born? (Which is the feast of “Tabernacle” known as “Sukkot” well this was October or September when this month falls) Then after the “eight” days he would have been “circumcised” completing the festival of “Sukkot”) The Bible is silent thereon. It is without reason that the only "Birthday" commemorations mentioned in “Yahweh’s” Word are Pharaoh's (Genesis 40:20) and Herod's (Matthew 14:6)? Is this recorded "for our learning?" If so, have we prayerfully taken it to heart?

Well we will conclude it is wrong and an unbiblical practice. It may be a social norm in this world but, so are many other evils being practiced and being done?

drop youR birthday wishes and then you come with this long epistle. That's how you fail exams. Doctrines won't get you anywhere.

eboe boy: One day, an Igbo man will rule Lagos. And that is whether you like it or not. It may take years but it will surely happen

it will take eons

SELFWORTH: I don't understand this fascination with Jet and Ministers of God. Jesus did not own a single thing while he lived on planet earth . You don't need all these material things for your life to make a real impact on lives of other fellow beings or leave a lasting legacy. None of these material things bring any fulfilment of any kind.

How does the jet bring glory to Christ?

you're a fool. I don't know why people are so quick to spread the misconception that Jesus was poor. Far from it!!! The bible told us that the soldiers that nailed him to the cross fought over his robe. I guess they were fighting over a rag abi?

9ja voice: igbos has proven time without number that they are standing for something.

but Yorubas cannot stand for anything.

the only way for Yorubas to go out of Nigeria is when every tribe is gone.
but to talk on newspaper and online they will be number one. with their false info here and there.

You're a fool. Yorubas don't stand for anything yet we've been calling for SNC and resource control.

franchizy: Nigeria will be declared an Islamist country, No more Corruption and Looting of Public funds.

lol only in your dreams. Do u think the non-muslims are fools? It's too early to be high on skunk.

obalolaunited: coffee wey I dey drink wan comot for my nose

don't u ever get tired of using this phrase over and over again? You're one very dry guy.

oluface: Insha Allah Nigeria Shall be Islamise. Though i no support the illegal killing but i believe that adopting Sharia will favour Nigeria. Sharia is not About killing killing. Sharia has more Advantage than it Disadvantage.

In your wildest dreams. Silly thing. So you're not ready to respect the religious views of others? U want to shove islam down our throats? Islam is truely backward then. Any religion against freedom and equality is a religion of shit and piss not peace.

very good review from a neutral person.

executinal: We hear you sir. But kindly advice BUHARI to always come out and condemn BOKORAMS anytime they strike.

mumu he has done that several times. Have you been living under a rock?

Hehe... Biafra. A house divided against itself. Confused modafU*ckers. Lmao

[quote author=Awka.Gun]Can't figure out where Eketi state is..

Is it north central..not sure though..

Some of these obscure states need to create more awareness for people know that such places exist in 9ja..no insult meant. Biko [/quote]hehe the obscure state has a GDP higher than that of Ebonyi. Mumu

Iykopee: I have discovered that the reason nigeria govt doesnt want the igbos to leave is thus..... Shud igbos leave nigeria, the people of south south eg rivers state, bayelsa, akwa ibom, delta, cross river and edo will definitely leave nigeria which constitutes d life wire of d nations economy...is it possible for yoruba and hausa people to live 2geda as one nigeria after the igbos and south south people might have gone?... Little wonder a northerner doesnt want 9jas' disintegration...likewise d yorubas they dont want nigeria to disintegrate indirectly despite ur hypocritic rants on nairaland... Biafra make u find wey go abeg make we south south chase yorubas and hausa parasites out of our region....useless parasite....west and north..

mumu we are parasites but we've been at the fore front of the call for SNC. Common sense is obviously not common.

Zeus I: Fool! Whatever happened then was carried out by your governors(Tinubu and Fashola) with the aid of police force disguising themselves as OPC(OPC has no guts to act independently). But i assure you, any violence against Igbos in Lagos will see a state of emergency declared or reduction of yoruba population both in Lagos and East. Igbos now owns enormous wealth in Lagos making it a part Igbo land. Can you come to east and protest as a yoruba man? Try nou.

dumba*ss... We all know yorubas are peace loving people. If u ibos are so bold go and protest in Kano or Maiduguri.

Rotlfmao... These biafrog retar*ds don't cease to amaze me. See these clowns o? It's funny how they claim Lagos would be deserted if they leave. Enter any office in Lagos and u'll see that at least 60% of the employees are Yorubas. Lagos would only be deserted in your dreams. You donkeys should carry your bags and go. There are a lot of Yoruba graduates all over the south west that would take over your jobs once you leave.

exxell: AND WE ALL KNOW WHY THESE MADE FRONT PAGE EVEN THOUGH ITS NOT A KIDNAP STORY AT ALL... BIGOTED, TRIBALISTIC MODS! A GUY WAS COMPLAINING YESTERDAY OF HOW HIS POST OF "TWO YORUBA BOYS RAPPE A GIRL TO DEATH AND BURIES HER", NEVER MADE FRONT PAGE. YET THIS RUBBISH STORY MAKES FRONT PAGE JUST BECAUSE OF THE WORD "KIDNAP" AND BECAUSE IT INVOLVES THE TRIBE OF YOU ALL KNOW NA. ANYWAYS, GOD IS WATCHING Y'ALL ON "AFRICAN MAGIC"!

retard... The thief that was caught is Igbo too abi? When will you ibo cry babies stop making yourselves look like victims? Grow the phuck up or get out on Nairaland. No one is begging you to stay.

This is a very good development as far as i'm concerned. Though okada makes tranportation easier for Lagosians, the risks are too much. They drive against traffic and make life difficult for people walking on foot. Even when you're driving you have to keep watching out for them or they'll break your head lamp and run away. Come to luth and see the number of patients from Okada accident. They just have to go. We'll soon get used to the new development.