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Wizzz1:
oga mi, you sef still dey wait for Agbami?

Oooh...my boss.

If ah no wait, who go help me wait na.

Harmattan don kash ma akant o, the thing just dry anyhow...

wahza:
All of Agbamis' previous payments started on a Friday... Till Friday the 17th before we hope again

Not totally correct o. I could remember I once got payment on my way to church on a Thursday.

Let's hope for this week sha...

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ismailharudeen:
2018

Okay.

Pls who else got the e-mail for verification?

ismailharudeen:
yeah

Really? I haven't seen any such thing.

You were awarded in what year?

ismailharudeen:
They’ve called for verification oh

Where pls? You were notified with an e-mail?

DanXplore:
Do you still need help with this?

Yes boss, I do.

Hello Mathematicians... Something is making my head to "turnioniown" here... Pls help me out...

Find the Jacobian of transformation from (x, y) to (u, w), defined as:

x + y^2 = u
y + x^2 = w

I am particularly confused as to how to express each of x, y in terms of u, w.

LOL...

I was coming home from school that day. I started feeling the urine after we passed the Redemption camp. I thought I could hold it, plus we were already leaving the "bushy" areas of the expressway, so I kept quiet.

As we approached Berger bus stop, the trouble started; my face got literally wet. I looked around to see if I could get somewhere to pass the urine if the driver stopped. There was none. I had to keep holding it.

As I alighted at Berger, I moved down the stairs (Berger was yet to be developed the way it is now, as at then). I looked around, nowhere to hide. I had my box and schoolbag with me. I was hoping to bounce in as a fresh schoolboy, but mahnnn, I was seriously pressed. I just took my box sharply, dropped it on my head, and held it with one hand, the other hand held to my trousers (caressing my 'stuff' so as not to disgrace me).

I crossed the road to the car park where I would board the next bus to my house. I could barely see what was going on around, as my 'stuff' was almost letting out the urine, with my box still on my head. Omo, the thing no funny again o.

As I looked round the busy car park in confusion, I saw the buses waiting on queue for their turn. I could see the extreme end of the queue was fenced, so I felt "at last, that's a good place to let out this stuff."

I instantly dropped by box and schoolbag and ran to the fenced end of the queue. I didn't bother to check what was going on around. Mannnh, I needed to offload first.

As I got there, I just opened my zip and loosely let out my entire "stuff", with my head slightly tilted upwards, mouth open, with that heavy sigh of relief...like "....ooooo, Oluwa o se...."

As I released everything and my senses came to normal, lo and behold, my eyes opened, I looked forward. Guess what I saw.

It was a "mama-put" food joint at the other side of the fence. It was then I realized the fence was short, and everyone waiting to get food at the joint saw my short movie from start to finish. O boy... see my life outside o.

No time o, I just shouted "Oooh...sorry, sorry, sorry..." and escaped to where I dropped my luggage.

Perhaps he simply wanted to derail the thread. Let's all ignore him please.

Pls kinldy help push this to the front page, @ Fynestboi. Thanks.

About eight members of the students' union of Obafemi Awolowo University are currently being held in Ilesa, Osun state maximum prison for staying back in the hostel while the institution is on break.


SaharaReporters learnt that the school management while trying to enforce an eviction order on the students, invited police officers into the school.

It was gathered that the police officers arrested the union leaders while they were addressing their fellow students.

The union leaders were first detained in Moore Police Station after their arrest before they were taken to court where the judge ordered that they should be taken to Ilesa maximum prison for detention on Thursday.

But the students claimed that those who stayed back in school were either writing their projects, doing their teaching practice or internship programs.

The students also added that they have always been allowed to stay back in halls of residence by the school management because the programs are recognized by the university authorities.

Speaking to SaharaReporters, one of the students’ union leaders who escaped arrest narrated how the Hall Warden of Moremi Hall spearheaded the forceful ejection of students and eventual damage to properties.

He said, “the hall warden and some other people went into the room of the students and were throwing out beds, clothes and other properties of the students. They even went as far as molesting the students in carrying out the order of the management.”

One of the students who spoke with our correspondents revealed that the university management had previously attempted to forcefully evict students from an Alumni Hall.
He added that it took the intervention of the union leaders before residents of the Alumni Hall were allowed back into their rooms.

“While we were trying to pacify the warden that they should allow the students to stay, the management hurriedly brought in police officers into the schools. These police officers brutalized and whisked away some of the union leaders present at Moremi hall.

“We found out that they were taken to Moore police station but when we got there, the officers told us that we cannot bail those arrested and insisted that it is only their guardian that can bail them”, the students narrated.

Speaking further, the students lamented how their colleagues were hurriedly taken to court and tried before a kangaroo court.

They maintained that they were arraigned as early as 9 am and the judge asked the students to be detained at Ilesa maximum prison.

They also said that the school management presented the Hall Warden and some university officials who were not at Moremi hall when the controversy broke out to testify against the students.

The judge who presided over the students’ case at Adebamidele High Court, Osun ordered the students to be remanded while fixing very tough bail conditions for them.

The bail conditions include N500,000 including two sureties for each student and each surety must be a civil servant who is at Level 12 and must have paid his taxes up to date.

Condemning the attack, Education Rights Campaign (ERC) through a statement signed by its Acting Coordinator, Dunnex Samuel and Acting Secretary, Damilola Amethyst, labeled the act by the university management to forcefully eject students from campus as barbaric and inhumane.

“We also consider the violent assault, harassment and brutalisation of students, a ridicule of the university's image and an abuse of the fundamental human right of students; Right to human dignity and right to a peaceful assembly among many others”, ERC posited.

The education rights body also slammed the Nigeria Police Force for their involvement in the forceful ejection of students by being used as instruments and machines to carry out the dirty works of OAU management. ERC insisted that the police has the duty to maintain law and order and not act as an oppressive body.

“For us in the Education Rights Campaign, we believe the police force is a state apparatus which should serve as a protective layer to the oppressed where they can seek solace and not a mere purchasable tool of the highest bidder in implementing repressive aims of the oppressors.”

It was gathered that the university management is already mapping out how to also forcefully to eject students residing in Awo Hall and to also arrest whoever tries to resist the eviction order.


Source: http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/23/how-obafemi-awolowo-university-management-illegally-arrests-and-imprison-union-leaders

Hello,

System refused to boot after uninstalling an app, and allowing a "reboot" prompted to complete uninstalling.

Pls I need help.

What can I do now?

auwal83:
2015, First Bank, no alert yet. Did everything. Let's hear from you guys as you receie yours.

Same here brother. Have you checked your account balance? Someone earlier said he got it without an alert.

This is the same guy saying the scheme has stopped then.
Let's wait for others abeg.

Abi someone should check the Agbami account fes.

Who else has got the alert?
Is this for real?

@Fynestboi, pls kindly help push this to the front page. Thanks.

Samyokporua:
https://www.nairaland.com/4229035/open-letter-star-deep-water

Please visit like and comment on it, let's see how far this goes....

I just did bro.

Good job.

I suggest you rename the post to something more explicit, like "Open Letter to Agbami Oil Field Operators."


God bless the hustle.

Yea. It's just frustrating!

We have been anticipating payment since August.

I believe the bank account update was just to keep us waiting as they further delay payments.

This is really saddening, especially considering the fact that some of us have been paid just once since 2015.

We appreciate your support, really.

Pls kindly pay up for the outstanding years before guys die of frustration.

#BoysAintSmiling

Medics07:
A thread on the topic should be created so the mods can move it to front-page

Yea. Guys pls let's do this!

I subscribe to what someone said earlier, that this is just a tactic to keep us waiting, thinking that they are working on paying us as soon as possible, while they keep postponing the payment.

Has anyone not a 2015 beneficiary got the mail?

mistrshene:
Personal?
Maybe they want to reimburse us...

Reimburse? That sounds cool though...but na the main money guys need now. Moreover, was it that they lost the account details on our scholastica profile?

Again, are we all 2015 beneficiaries that got the mail?

Where is that their number again? Let's call to confirm first.

Drosmo:
Wetin u wan break? Come lemme dash you 100k

Baba mi, I go warmly embrace am o...

lol.
That Nov. 2nd had better be true o...if not, we go break something here o..

Stiphler:
Mr Jessy, I'm truly sorry I don't know your book. But please do not...i repeat DO NOT stick around. If these are the kind of questions you have. Because there is an army of students patiently waiting for something really, really important.

lol......guys dey para. Boys are not smiling.

beamtopola:
If who ever is in charge (Nigerian) of that payment does not dispense that cash to our individual account by tomorrow..... coz I know that the operators of agbami ( whitemen without background of bereaving) have payout the money since on august and the black men in charge of the payment are tryna hoard the money for more gain from the bank unlike when agbami were dealing with the bank directly, they normally pay before september. And agbami decided to give the control of payment to a greedy black men and they decided that they won't pay earlier, they will make some money from it. I declared , if those I'd iots donot pay the money this week, those black men in charge will die before the end of this week.

Ha! Die bawo? Abeg o......let's be slow to speak bro.

God has blessed them ALL.

Yea, we all need the money, and we will get it this week.

lol..
Guys dey para for here o.
No go talk anything without proof or reliable source o. Boys are not smiling.
Hahahahaha!

lol...understood bro. Boys are not smiling o.

Backinfront:
SUNDAY SERMON: THE TRUTH ABOUT TITHING


I came across this piece on a Whatsapp page and it so represented my views on tithing that I could have written it myself. Please enjoy the read!

The Trial of Pastor Jones (Author unknown)

Judge: Mr. Jones you have been charged with multiple counts of extortion. Your crime spree covers 20 years and thousands of victims. You have defrauded people out of their money with fear and manipulation, telling them they had to tithe 10% of their income as per the LAW to your Regd. organization (called Church) and that God would bless them if they did. You also told them that if they didn't tithe God would curse them.

How do you plead?

Mr. Jones: I plead not guilty your Honor, I have done nothing wrong. I have only preached what the Bible says. In the Bible Abraham tithed to Melchizedek and God blessed him for his faithful giving. The Bible even says he was rich in silver and gold.

Judge: Is it not true, Mr. Jones, that in Genesis Chapter 13 verse 2 the Bible says Abraham was rich with livestock, silver and gold?

Mr. Jones: Yes, you are exactly right, that's what I just told you.

Judge: Ok, we read about Abraham being a rich man in chapter 13 but it is not until Genesis chapter 14 that we read about Abraham's tithe to Melchizedek. So Abraham was already a rich man before he tithed to Melchizedek, wasn't he?

Mr. Jones: Yes, I suppose you are right.

Judge: So his riches were not the result of his tithe to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: No.

Judge: Mr. Jones, you also say God blessed him for his faithful giving. How many times is it recorded that Abraham gave tithes to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: Well, just once.

Judge: So the Bible never said that he gave week after week?

Mr. Jones: No it does not.

Judge: Where did Abraham get the things that he gave to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: Well the Bible says it was from the plunders of war?

Judge: So you are telling me that he gave from the plunders of war?

Mr. Jones: Yes that's what the Bible says.

Judge: So he basically took things that were not really his in the first place and gave them as the tithe?

Mr. Jones: That is what the scripture seems to indicate.

Judge: Is it recorded that he ever took anything from his own possessions and tithed them to Melchizedek or anyone else?

Mr. Jones: I guess not

Judge: You guess not, you are a teacher and you are only guessing, is it or is it not written that he ever gave any of his own possessions as a tithe to anyone?

Mr. Jones: No it is not written anywhere that I have seen.

Judge: Is it recorded as to what exactly Abraham did give Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: I believe it says plunder?

Judge: So plunder could be any number of things?

Mr. Jones: Yes, I suppose

Judge: It could have been food, cattle, sheep, the people's possessions or any number of things. It does not say it was all money correct?

Mr. Jones: Yes you are correct, it does not say just money

Judge: As a matter of fact money is never mentioned in that account at all is that correct Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: Yes your Honor, money is never mentioned just goods and food and people.

Judge: So there is no way you can say with any certainty that Abraham in fact gave Melchizedek any money at all?

Mr. Jones: That is right.

Judge: I only have one last question for you
Mr. Jones, did God command Abraham to give this plunder tithe to Melchizedek?

Mr. Jones: No, it appears that he did this voluntarily.

Judge: So are you trying to tell me that because of this voluntary, one time gift by Abraham, that may not have even consisted of money, all Christians everywhere are obligated to bring 10% of their weekly paycheck to a local Regd.Organization-church?
Considering all the evidence I would say you are beyond any shadow of a doubt guilty of deliberately trying to make the scriptures says things they have not said for financial gain.

Mr. Jones: Ok your Honor, I can see how foolish I was to try and use the story of Melchizedeck to try and get the people to tithe money. But there are many other verses that will support my belief on tithing. Jacob said he would give God 10% of everything. I think we should follow his example.

Judge: Let's see what Jacob said. Please read the verse you are talking about for me Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones: In Genesis chapter 28 starting at verse 20 it says. Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God, then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."

Judge: You said we should follow Jacobs example, is that right Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: Yes that is right, he vowed to give a tenth and we should too.

Judge: Let me point out one thing for you Mr. Jones, Jacob said he would Give God a tenth, ONLY if He blessed him first. So as you said previously, we should follow Jacob's example and tell God that we will only give him a tenth if he blesses us first. Is that right?

Mr. Jones: That is not what I meant.

Judge: What did you mean then?

Mr. Jones: That we should give God a tenth also.

Judge: There you go again, trying to make the scripture say what you want it to say for your benefit. I would also like you to tell me the scriptures that say that Jacob kept his vow with God. I would also like to know where he gave the tenth to because there was no temple or levites to give it to at that time.

Mr. Jones: I can not think of any scriptures that say where or if he ever tithed after his vow.

Judge: It seems fairly obvious to me that Jacob made a voluntary and conditional vow to God. This in no way can be used as a reason to demand others to bring their income to you or any other place.

Mr. Jones: I do have a few more scriptures that I believe will show that we are supposed to tithe.

Judge: You have not said anything yet to convince me one little bit that people are obligated to tithe money to the local organizational institutions -churches and that you were justified in what you were doing. You have taken scripture and misapplied it to your beliefs and for your gain. But in order to be fair to you I will allow you to present more evidence.

Mr. Jones: In the book of Malachi chapter 3 starting at verse 8 it says, will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what 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 store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, 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. So you see your Honor, we are commanded to bring the tithes into the storehouse or God will curse us.

Judge: Answer me this Mr Jones, Who was God Speaking to here?

Mr Jones: To the People of Israel

Judge: Can you please read Malachi 2: 1 Please Mr Jones

Mr Jones: Now This command is for you O PRIEST !!

Judge: Did God stop talking to the Priest in Chap. 3, Mr Jones?

Mr Jones: No your Honor!

[color=greem]Judge[/color]: Answer me this Mr. Jones, were you aware that God never required anyone to tithe money?

Mr. Jones: No I didn't know that.

Judge: The tithe spoken of here was always edible products never money.

Mr. Jones: Well your Honor that is because they didn't have money at the time so God had them tithe food instead.

Judge: Not true, money is first mentioned in Genesis and Malachi was written hundreds of years later. God had them bring food in so that the levites, the fatherless and widows may eat and be satisfied. The tithe was used mainly to take care of people. Also notice it says in the verse you quoted, that there may be food in my house. The food was the tithe. How do you completely overlook the word food in those verses?

Mr. Jones: I don't know

Judge: I also want you to know that these verses speak to nation under the Old Testament law. As you may or may not know Jesus fulfilled the law, it is no longer binding. Once again you have tried to completely take a scripture out of context and apply it to others for your benefit. Can you give me a single scripture where God changed the tithe from food to money?

Mr. Jones: I do not know of any.

Judge: So if God never changed it from food to money who did?

Mr. Jones: Man must have.

Judge: So far all you have done Mr. Jones, is take Old Testament scriptures out of context and try to apply it to believers under the New Covenant. Is this all the proof you have?

Mr. Jones: I do have a New Testament scripture that will show that Jesus told us to tithe.

Judge: Ok let me hear it.

Mr. Jones: Jesus said in Matthew 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. See Jesus said we should be tithing.

Judge: Let me ask you a question, who was Jesus talking to?

Mr. Jones: The scripture says the Scribes and Pharisees.

Judge: Are you a scribe or Pharisee?

Mr. Jones: Of course not.

Judge: Jesus also said in that passage, you have left undone the weightier matters of the law. Are we under the law Mr. Jones?

Mr. Jones: No.

Judge: Why not?

Mr. Jones: Because Jesus fulfilled it.

Judge: When did Jesus fulfill the law?

Mr. Jones: When He was crucified.

Judge: So the law was still in effect until Jesus death?

Mr. Jones: That is correct.

Judge: I think you know where I am going with this don't you?

Mr. Jones: Yes your Honor. Since Jesus had not yet been crucified and the law was still binding the Pharisees were required to tithe because it was part of the law. Once the law ended, tithing ended also.

Judge: I want you to take a look at that verse again. Also tell me, what were they tithing?

Mr. Jones: The scripture says it was mint, dill and cumin.

Judge: Is money mentioned?

Mr. Jones: No it was not.

Judge: Once again it was edible products that they were tithing, not money. Do you have anything else you would like to say?

Mr. Jones: If people only tithed edible products like the scripture says, then how would the church survive? We have our mortgage payment, utility bills, staff salary and a host of other things that we have to pay each week. We depend on the money from the people.

Judge: By "church" you mean your organization isn't it Mr Jones ?
-The need does not justify the means. In other words, just because you have all these debts does not give you the right to twist and manipulate scripture and cause people to give under fear of being cursed by God to meet your needs. Does It Mr Jones?
In closing, let me recap a few things for you Mr. Jones.
-The tithe was never money;
-The tithe was an Old Testament law, which is no longer binding. When it was binding the tithe was used to take care of people, not buildings.
- We are under a new covenant now.
Paul instructs the Corinthian believers how they are to give. He says in second Corinthians chapter 9 verse 7, Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. So each believer is supposed to give as he or she has determined in his or her heart.
If they determine to Give 10% well and good, If they keep aside some every week to meet this more better.If you are trying to make people give under the threat of being cursed or any other reason even blessing, you are wrong. Someone can not give cheerfully if they are being forced to give. If 'your church can not survive on freewill offerings maybe God is not part of your church at all.
Mr Jones, do you intentionally put your people under a Curse or a Bondage?

Mr Jones: Of Course not !!

Judge: Can you Read in context Gal 3:10-11: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them ....
AND
Gal 5:1-4 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage....

Mr. Jones: I never realized all these things, I have always been taught that we had to tithe money to the local church and that is what I have always taught. I can see now that I was completely wrong. I did not study the scripture for myself, I only took mans word for it.
Yes ' am guilty. I will not teach this error anymore.
Sentencing....... All Arise .....

Wow! This answers almost all question anyone should have on tithing.

I commend the person who took pain to compose this. I have to share it.

Thanks a lot.