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Nigeria did not happen to him. Let's put the blame where it actually should be. The driver drove recklessly. Where the government should be blamed is leaving a broken down vehicle on the same spot for more than 24 hours.

steveodo:
AJ has got his own share of Nigeria shame, Nigeria has happened to him

I have had near death experience three times and I need no one to convince me that there's hell. I would not even try to convince anyone to believe. I only pray that God gives those who doubt it just a few seconds of that experience. That's all that is needed to get the person on his knees begging for his sins and years of unbelief

From my personal experience God does not cast anyone there. The soul flings itself there once it comes before God's presence and realises that it lived all its life resisting everything God did to save it from going there. It sees every thing from birth to death. Every single second that God intervened and it remained cocky in disbelief and deliberate denial.

The fire is not the most tormenting aspect of hell; it is the loss of God forever. It is the fact that nothing good, no good thought can enter there. The soul would try to desire it but would be met with heavy torment so it opts to be hostile even against it's will to God and good. It sees that everything it lived and died for is meaningless so it would wish everyone on earth including loved ones to join it there.

This is my experience. Once the soul is dragged there by some ferocious beings it has to conform to the will of the owner of that sphere, meaning you must hate God and good. Your will so freely expressed while alive is taken away.

There was fire but not as we think of it on earth. It is a fire that burns the soul which cannot die so it's of a different nature. The darkness there is so thick that the fire doesn't burn red but it is ink black yet everyone sees the other and hates self and the others. The soul craves for annihilation but it can't happen.

The other thing that torments the soul there is the realisation that with a little self control or some sacrifices it could have avoided that place. Those who doubt hell who end up there would eternally regret that it would have cost them nothing to have believed it and lived a life to avoid going there.

Everything I have described is just a dot out of the many things that I experienced in less than two seconds there when I had those experiences three times.

Though I would wish you do, you are free not to believe these things. We will all bear the consequences of our choices
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UkoAnnang:


There's no hell fire anywhere

The hell fire story is one of the religious antiquities.

The story of hell in the Bible was a Jewish customs of how they buried evil people when they died. Rather than buried them in hell (grave) they throw them into fire, a refuge dump behind the Jericho wall where there burn them with refuge there during harmattan winter.

This doctrine was also attested to our traditional ancestors beliefs where wicked people where buried in the evil forest without a proper burial.
I remember when I was a child, there was a boy in the community who committed suicide and the elders called on his family to bring items for sacrifices before he could be buried and the family couldn't afford those items and the body was taken to forest where he was buried.

Six civil society groups – the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), Citizens Free Service Forum (CFSF), the Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Child Health Organisation, New Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI) and the Ecumenical Water Network Africa/Blue Communities Africa (EWNA/BCA) have sent a petition to the Lagos State House of Assembly urging it to halt the privatisation plans being implemented by the Lagos Water Corporation (LWC).

The LWC had organised a Stakeholders’ Engagement on the Pilot Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for Lagos Water Corporation on August 15 at a hotel in Ikeja with support from WaterAid. The engagement was to secure private financing for infrastructural development and public buy-in for the privatisation initiative.

But the groups in a petition to the House of Assembly, made available to the media, stated that “the event was only portrayed as public participation in decision-making when in actual fact it aimed to ram the PPP down the throats of Lagosians.”


They said that the organisers of the event disregarded the rejection of privatisation including the PPP by Lagos residents, pretending as if the initiative enjoyed support.

Pointing to the privatisation failure in the UK which the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and other donors had always peddled as a success story, they noted that investors in England and Wales’ water sector (largely driven by profits) withdrew over £85.2bn from the 10 water and sewerage firms since the industry was privatised more than 30 years ago. This information which shows distrust and disinvestment in the privatisation exercise, came to light in a 2024 report by the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) of the University of Greenwich.

Blaming lack of access to water in Lagos on failure in legislative oversight, the groups urged the House to investigate budgetary allocations to the water sector since 1999, listing some allocations that should be probed to include the Otta-Ikosi waterworks awarded for N4 billion in 2007 and the N3 billion expended on construction of an Independent Power Plant (IPP) which also included an additional N180 million expended monthly on fueling.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/groups-petition-lagos-assembly-on-ppp-plans-of-lagos-water-corporation/amp/

Is it the same New York I have been to several times that is portrayed like heaven? New York is a shit hole.

We will not have a one party state. The party will implode because they are all strange bed fellows

MJ of course. Even the others will ask why they were put on that list

https://tribuneonlineng.com/new-report-exposes-factors-responsible-for-water-crisis-in-nigeria/

New Report Exposes Factors Responsible for Water Crisis in Nigeria

Water justice groups in Nigeria have released a report that outlines the causes for the poor access to potable water in the country and detailed solutions to the problem.

The report titled, ‘Dry Taps: A Damning Verdict on the State of Water Utilities in Nigeria,’ presents the outcomes of fact-finding exercises which included visits to water utilities in six states of the federation – Enugu, Edo, Lagos, Oyo, Kogi and Kano.


The fact finding visits were conducted by the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), New Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI), Citizens Free Service Forum (CFSF), the Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWN-A), Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Socio-Economic Research and Development Centre (SERDEC) in collaboration with the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUPCTRE).

The report uncovered aging and crumbling infrastructure due to lack of maintenance, poor funding for purchase of treatment chemicals, erratic power supply resulting in use of alternative power sources at huge cost, shortage of manpower and irregular payment of salaries of workers, among other challenges besetting the water utilities.

In the public presentation of the report in Abuja, AUPCTRE General Secretary, Comrade Sikiru Waheed, explained that though the scope of the research was limited only to six out of Nigeria’s 36 states, it deliberately captures the situation in at least one state per geographical zone, making it a sneak peek into the overall picture of the access to water situation in the entire federation.

Due to manpower and resource challenges the research focused on the water situation in the cities.

Executive Director of RDI, Philip Jakpor said: “The investigations we conducted exposed what is already in plain sight. Now we can lay the blame for the perilous state of water in Nigeria exactly where it should be – Government at state and federal level that continue to vote monies for the water sector yet there is nothing to show that the funds are used for what they are meant for. It is a wicked strategy across board to ultimately collapse the water utilities and pave the way for their privatization.”

Water justice groups in Nigeria have released a report that outlines the causes for the poor access to potable water in the country and detailed solutions to the problem.

The report titled, ‘Dry Taps: A Damning Verdict on the State of Water Utilities in Nigeria,’ presents the outcomes of fact-finding exercises which included visits to water utilities in six states of the federation – Enugu, Edo, Lagos, Oyo, Kogi and Kano.


The fact finding visits were conducted by the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI), New Life Community Care Initiative (NELCCI), Citizens Free Service Forum (CFSF), the Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWN-A), Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN), Socio-Economic Research and Development Centre (SERDEC) in collaboration with the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUPCTRE).

The report uncovered aging and crumbling infrastructure due to lack of maintenance, poor funding for purchase of treatment chemicals, erratic power supply resulting in use of alternative power sources at huge cost, shortage of manpower and irregular payment of salaries of workers, among other challenges besetting the water utilities.

In the public presentation of the report in Abuja, AUPCTRE General Secretary, Comrade Sikiru Waheed, explained that though the scope of the research was limited only to six out of Nigeria’s 36 states, it deliberately captures the situation in at least one state per geographical zone, making it a sneak peek into the overall picture of the access to water situation in the entire federation.

Due to manpower and resource challenges the research focused on the water situation in the cities.

Executive Director of RDI, Philip Jakpor said: “The investigations we conducted exposed what is already in plain sight. Now we can lay the blame for the perilous state of water in Nigeria exactly where it should be – Government at state and federal level that continue to vote monies for the water sector yet there is nothing to show that the funds are used for what they are meant for. It is a wicked strategy across board to ultimately collapse the water utilities and pave the way for their privatization.”


While presenting findings from their respective states, Coordinator of EWNA, Reverend Kolade Fadahunsi, Executive Director of SERDEC, Tijani Abdulkareem and Executive Director of NELCCI, Florence Ifeanyi-Aneke said that the disturbing situation in the water utilities was demoralising staff, many of whom are near retirement and there are no plans on ground to replace them.

At the Eleyele Scheme in Ibadan, a disturbing sight in the premises is the number of electricity generators used to pump water due to the erratic power supply. In Edo State, the Ikpoba river dam that is supposed to feed the headworks in Ugbowo and Iyaro has been left fallow. Some privately owned fish ponds were also sited within the vicinity. The dam, which used to produce over 90MGD, was confirmed to be no longer operational as the pumping facility had been abandoned.

In Kano, the three waterworks combined only meet the needs of less than 10 percent of the population in the city. The case was similar to Enugu where the previous administration was said to have voted billions of naira for expanding the network of mains but nothing on ground to show what the funds went into. Currently, the Enugu Water Corporation has only 11, 234 customers.

Kogi State is also in the red as the Greater Lokoja Waterworks and all other zonal sub-station offices were not producing water and have been on lock down since the 2022 floods damaged them.

In Lagos, about N760 million was committed to rehabilitation of the 48 mini and micro waterworks in 2017 following findings that there was already a deficit of 500 million gallons per day in water supply in the state. Subsequently, there have been votes for the sector but disturbingly, nothing on ground suggested that the monies were put to good use as most of the waterworks are comatose, impaired or at best operating far below their installed capacities. The Adiyan and Iju Waterworks visited in the course of this investigation work sub-optimally.

The groups also made recommendations to the government on how to address the water crisis. They include the need for the declaration of a state of emergency in the water sector and the integration of broad public participation in formulating plans to achieve universal access.

They also want the federal and state governments to reject all forms of water privatization and commodification and the need for them to fully uphold the human right to water as an obligation of the government, representing the people.

They demanded a probe of billions of naira in loans for the countless water schemes littered across the federation and the strengthening of public accountability in the management of water resources, among others.

Hi All,
I am new here. Its good to connect. My email is jakporebuata@gmail.com