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cre8tivity:
it is simple: [size=18pt]it is extremely painful for some people to deeply think. it is easy to say rubbish[/size], but dealing with [size=18pt]rubbish[/size] is a different story. we do not personally know this man, therefore it is [size=18pt]stupid or senseless[/size] to speculate on what he's currently going through, mentally, politically and physically.
please, let us be sensible and a little bit of maturity wouldn't hurt anything either.

why not try being sensible yourself. i am out of here.  rabbits will rule nigeria one day thanks to no question asked people like you know who!

wbb

Sisi Jinx:
Rotflmao!! This reminds of the case of the Housewife whose husband told her their neighbors claim she curses too much and she immediately starts cursing them for saying such a thing about her.

some people dont know how to say No to temptations. you give them small rope they start with their neck

some years ago they did a 2 page spread in one of uk broadsheets on the health hazards of high hills. back pain and the rest.

cre8tivity:
sweet-heart, it isn't our duty to judge these people. we must give God a chance to do his duties. just remember that good health isn't promised to anyone; and it doesn't matter whether you're good or bad.
again, please be sensible.

i am not wishing any one sick. where did you get that from? who told you good health wasnt promised?

cre8tivity:
@logosboy: good point, but you must note that indians are not nigerians. our ways of thinking is pretty much different. it's part of our culture to keep certain things to ourselves. we continue to make fun of this man without deeply thinking, and think this is ridiculous. @lagosboy, i wonder what you would have done is you happen to be in his position. we must be careful, respectful and sensible. instead of constant criticism, may be we should try something different and say a little pray for him. this is the only way out of darkness, because "God don't slumber"; he knows better and sees clearer.
please, be-careful.

i bet if you were God for one hour the theives you have in PDP would be your favourite people to hear praying.  these are lawless, ruthless, ungodly men/ women raping a whole nation and God as you understand Him is supposed to be blessing them to show He is nigerians favourite uncle abi?

why you dey ask simple question? that is too much for clever minds like boss

KunleOshob:
@ Poster
There is no such thing as God's will when it comes to choosing a life partner, this notion is another invention of the church. The only rules you would find in the bible concerning choice of marrital partner is 1) the Israelites were instructed not to marry outside their nation as they were God's chosen people. 2) Christians were advised not to marry non belieivers by apostle Paul so they would not be drawn back by their spouses. However you can still seek God's favour and direction in making your choice of a marrital partner. Pray and be true to your self and God would reveal to you if the person involved is suitable to be your life partner. Marriage decisions are very critical ones, even then God as given us the free will to choose our partners ourselves we can only ask for God's guidiance and favour whilst making that choice, God would NOT choose a partner for you.

funny confused boy.  how does God that dont have a will reveal what He doesnt have or know? 

Pray and be true to your self and [size=18pt]God would reveal to you if the person involved is suitable to be your life partner[/size].

you and  arguments

another one? shameless people

MrCrackles:
I always knew she was a cum slurping gutter cunt LovePeddler!

All of them pretending to be innocent and all, are two faced twats!!!

there is a funny question they all get asked in interviews.

have you been sexually harrased because we hear it is going on.

you guess the answer they all give. not me gov. it is always someone else

this joy woman must be very sad to complain about some small girl like this.  when did girls sleeping around become a crime in naija? i always tot that was their first emergency service and duty to the state

superstan:
are u ready to change your religion to christianity?

anataala:
my name is abubakar from birnin kebbi kebbi state nigeria u can call me on 08032404900,07034123142,08081792898

raregem004:
Am interested oooooooooo Holla @ me 07030079719

saturnjay:
Sallam alaekum. Rikkard. Please call me on this gsm (08034309244), i will call you back so that we can talk about some issues. Maa sallam.

is she that desperate to be calling you guys?

love is blind. if the girl is young expect things like this. if the girl is asking the mom for things like decorations and interior decor telll your bobo to grow up it is not the end of the world that is what women do.

finally, tell him to learn how to love and understand his ma inlaw because he needs her on his side more than he thinks. his wife happiness depends on a healthy relationship with her mum.

lovereigns:
Well,your friend wont tell me that he has not seen the traces of that habit in his wife before they got married.
Not too late sha,all he needs do is to talk it out with his wify,it is either her mother or her husby i.e you.am a woman and right from my courting days we have made it an abomination to get a third party,such agreements helps ,let your friend confront his wife with love on this issue,i bliv she will want to keep her home,dont rush do it in love.

it may just be a small matter this bobo is already telling his friends about. he has his friends to talk to but the lady talking to her mum is a no no. God help the family

B.O.S.S.:
[center]There Is Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying And Enjoy Yourself.     [/center]

Written by Adebowale Oriku    
Thursday, 29 January 2009
London transport – buses, trains – is often awash, busy really, with images and words of advertisement. Now you might be a poetry-reader to notice Poems on the Underground, and a poem-lover to bother perusing the few, often catchy, lines. But you don’t need to be a student of semiotics - signs - to notice the murals bedecking the red London buses. Often promotional adverts of newly released films, West End musicals, pictures captioned with blurbs, taglines and dates of release. The London buses were pressed into service when ‘Africa came to London’ with a menagerie of contortionists, fire-eaters, dancers, drummers and sundry performers in wildlife costume.

As a subscriber to the New Humanist and a member of the British Humanist Society, I could not but notice the words picked out in tricolour against the side of the red bus, There is probably no God. Now Stop Worrying and Enjoy Yourself. I was pleased to glimpse this legend one afternoon a couple of weeks ago in the Oxford Street, London. A chance, even serendipitous, sighting as I had not been to Oxford Street for more than year. I moved out of London almost four years ago but, even when I was living in the city, the commercial anthill that is Oxford Street had never held a draw for me. I had seen the promo picture carrying the words in a newspaper just before the advert went out, but I didn’t imagine I would run into it on the first day it came out.

As a humanist, this was like a minor epiphany, the New Year’s intellectual handsel.  Weeks before, the queasier and the more restless of the evangelical wing of Christians had objected to the advert running on London buses, as it was thought by this negligible fringe that it would cause offence.

The idea was mooted by Ms Ariane Sherine, a member of the British Humanist Society. She thought there was a vacuum to be filled with such an advert. Apart from immigrant groups like Nigerians, Ghanaians et al, the number of Christians is on the wane in the United Kingdom. Broadly speaking, religion has all but been wiped off the sociogeography of the British islands and their indigenous people. Only immigrants from the middle east and the South East Asia complement the wave of African religiosity in Britain with an Islamic variant of Abrahamism.

Aside from the highly contentious fact that bishops are still allowed to sit with other unelected peers in the House of Lords, there is a fairly vocal Christian lobby in the UK. It is this sort of groupings and their counterparts in Islam, Judaism and some other religions who often defend the existence of a few ‘faith schools’ in the UK. But in spite of all this, Britain is solidly a secular country, a modern western European nation in which religion has become a historical formality. Few of the British political leaders who have any belief would dare flaunt it in the public – it is simply not an election-winner. ‘We don’t do religion,’ former Prime minister, Tony Blair, once declared via his press secretary. Tony remained a closet Christian until he left office, and even now he is still a skulking rather than spiky High-Churchman. And the incumbent, Gordon Brown, has this diversionary and rather Freudian habit of quoting his clergyman father, he would never talk about his own faith or lack of it.

There are however certain Christian noisemakers whose relevance to British life is no more worthy than that of Muslims who fierily protested at the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses or the Danish cartoon of their prophet. Such Christians had also protested at the broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera, a parodic musical in which a Jesus-figure was infantilised, wearing nappies and so forth. The musical ran its course anyway, in spite of the Christian protesters.

These religious busybodies, in this instance curiously unsupported by their Islamic brethren, had again thought it was righteous to protest when Transport for London decided to take on the advert, There is Probably no God. The Christians, again playing martyrs, contended that the advertising campaign was offensive and derogatory to religious people, and that the advert would not meet the standards of substantiation and truthfulness.

The British Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) threw out the Christians’ case. The watchdog submitted that the British Humanist Association's campaign - There is Probably no God - did not breach the advertising code or mislead consumers. The ASA council asserted that the advert was an expression of the advertiser's view and that substantiation or lack of it had nothing to do with its message – not forgetting the word probably. The Advertising Standards Agency agrees that the content of the campaign would not gladden the hearts of many believers, but it was unlikely to mislead or to cause serious or widespread offence.

And it certainly did not cause an iota of offence. Before the advert was bannered on the side of the buses, discussions on blogs and newspaper columns had even proved that few people really cared whether the advert had gone the whole hog and hollered, There is no God. What had made Ms Sherine to hit upon the idea was what she considered the very haughtiness of religionists who were free to place adverts on and in most places, adverts spieling such clichés of belief and proselytization as ‘Jesus Lives,’ ‘Hell is Real.’  As well as wishing to give voice to atheists and non-believers, Ariane also wanted to provoke debate – and was there a debate!

At first, Ariane had thought it would take months for the British Humanists to raise the money to place the advert in January of this year. But within a few hours of the media broaching the issue, thousands of pounds had been raised, people came down with money enthusiastically – with religious zeal, if you will.

This had also provided another opportunity for Professor Richard Dawkins, distinguished occupier of the Chair of Public Understanding at Oxford, to weigh in heavily on religion. For decades, Dawkins has been the most eloquent and vigorous exegete of his near-namesake Charles Darwin, the propounder of the Theory of Evolution - the yearlong bicentenary of whose birth was flagged off a couple of days ago. Professor Dawkins is perhaps the most influential antireligionist living today. He does not excuse his tetchiness, his impatience with, even his ridicule of religion and its defenders and practitioners. His last book, The God Delusion, is a piece of deicidal higher criticism in which Dawkins aims a smart, swingeing cosh at God, religion and people who are religious, whom he considers delusional, and in a lot of cases, dim. Having come down with a chunk of the advert fee, the professor could also be depended upon to provide a wordbite during the debate: “This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think – and thinking is anathema to religion.”

Trust Professor Dawkins to deliver heavyhanded belabouring of religion at a wink. While it was refreshing and salutary to read, just as the words There is Probably no God might not overwhelmingly affect a long-fossilised belief in God, it hardly set me into any sort of rigorous mental callisthenics. For me, it is as likely as not that there is no God. Forget the simplexity of double negative equals positive, the crux-word here is the negative ‘no’. Probability – or probabilism in an analogous sense – is a potent word in philosophy, philology, theology, physics, mathematics and logic. The humanists knew better than to have written God is only a Probability. Now stop Worrying and Enjoy Yourself. This would have given believers in God a foothold, a ledge on which to stand and leap, headfirst, into the deep end of the murky viscid pool of God-argument, an argument no one wins easily – especially God-believers.

Of course this advertising campaign had turned the probability fallacy on its head to achieve its end. The conclusion is, just because something could not happen, it could not: Since the likelihood of God’s existence is dubious, his being is therefore dubious, if not nonexistent. Occam’s razor would cut atheists the bigger slack here. But beyond such devil’s advocacy, people in London and Britain, by and large, live their lives without the bugbear of God and his scapegoated fallen factotum, Satan, without the sanctions of religion, the elementary polestar of Wisdom Theology, they enjoy themselves without worrying about what God would think of MouthAction or cunnilingus or ‘binge-drinking’ every Friday night. Generally, manmade laws and rules have supplanted the anachronisms of the Ten Commandments and hellfire – by the way, the first Hellfire Club which had rakes, sots, philanderers as members, was established in the 18th century in England. And certainly, fear or love of God has nothing to do with the relative transparency in governance and governing in Britain. Nor was it God who taught them how to queue, how not to drop litter with sublime carefreeness.  

[b]I have wondered whether such an advert campaign could be launched in our beloved country, Nigeria, I mean in the best of all possible Nigerian worlds. Oh, but I shouldn’t wonder. Aren’t we a very religious country, with a very religious people, godly folks? If the British leaders are timid enough to mumble We don’t do God, Nigerian leaders shout from the housetops about how godly they are. They call on us often to pray for the nation, some of them even take on the role of imam and deacon to lead the prayer from the plush innards of their palaces. They bid us to fast for the betterment of the country. Wasn’t our former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a born-again Christian? Isn’t the present head of state a devoted Muslim, a Godsend? Aren’t our leaders anointed by God to lord it over us, and that we must accept them no matter what? Don’t we depend on our relationship with God to pass exams, drive cars without fuel, heal the ailing, and prosper? Aren’t we all chaste, honest, morally ramrod-straight, our leaders the paragons of honour? Don’t we fear God so much so that we only enjoy moderately, satisfied with our missionary-position mindset. Aren’t we a nation of virginal female undergraduates, of modest men whose minds are sublimated with godly cares? Don’t we all live spare, spartan lives because of our fear of God?

We indeed do God, we overdo God, hyper-do him, we’ve almost done God to death.  [/b]

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/there-is-probably-no-god.-now-stop-worrying-and-enjoy-your.html

nigerians dont do God we do religion and using God. God is not our problem. iwe are generally not Gody ( behaving like God ). being religious and using God as most naija people do is one thing living the Godly life is what nigerians dont do.
Godliness and contentment the bible say is great gain.
nigerians have it as using God for great gain is religion.

how do you put God on trial for the nigerian mind set

you need their support/ consent far more than you know.
how old are you and the guy?
how long have you guys known and does he work?
is it only the wealth thing your parents disapprove of?

gbola h:
We black are more intellectual than white, only our upbringing that is poor, anyway am proud to be an African from Nigeria even southwest

who told you this? what do you have to show for statements like this?
you want to spoil a beautiful thread with words like this you possibly cant justify

TINAOGE:
@tatooboy

The boy is from him. We have four children together. He only comes to the bed room once in 6 - 7 months when he wants to make love to me. In fact the last time he slept in our bedroom was six months ago before I had my last baby who is 6 months. Am not after sleeping in the same room and making love. But the husband and wife relationship. The baby now can sleep on her bed if he chooses to sleep in the bed room with me. Am so bothered because when there are visitors in the house, he would be lie in the living room with them is what bothers me most. The visitors would think we are having misunderstanding.

I think may be he is having extra marital affairs outside that is why he does not like sleeping in the bedroom because the girls may be calling him late at night and he would not want me to listen to their conversation.

he is another made and manufactured in naija small minded man. i am tempted to believe he is already seeing some other useless woman somewhere.

does he play with his kids too? be strong and seek support and counselling if you have to.
i pray God help you and your kids. these things are just too easy for people like him.

be smart go read derek prince book  God is a match maker. you wont regret it

[size=18pt]pray, wait & seek counsel and wait for the signs and leading. if in doubt always seek counsel and prayer support from those you love[/size]

it is good you want to know God's will. it is the best a man can get as gilette would say.

God's will come in various forms. it is certainly going to be  a woman for you and could easily be her becos God would lead your steps and direction as you are seeking His will.

whatever you do dont start engaging in pre marital sex as that iwont be His will.  loving, purity and appreciation of the person God gave you is ALWAYS His will.

no matter how you get to know by dreams, revelations, angelic announcements or prophesy, marraige is hard work and He expect you to work the work of loving and caring for her. the angels and His will dont do that for us.

another thing you may see is that she may not be exactly what you expect  but i recommend you trust God on that because He knows what will be good for you and His plans for the two lives. 
trust Him to always do right. He never lead wrong. i talk from experience and personal observation.

thanks for wanting to do right in this messed up times. may God in His mercy guide you in Jesus name

why dont they give mama sikira in ketu akara seller of the year award? nigerians give out awards like that is candys/sweets.

what is the reason for this man being man of the year? was there any voting? was it free and fair?

SeanT21:
That story does not make any sense.

if you were nigerian it would have made sence. dont worry it make sence to most NL citizens

fs:
Where do you guys live? I've never ever come across any woman that is strictly looking for a guy that much older than her. I'm sure they are out there, no doubt, i'm just wondering why none of them are people I know.

I do think that men tend to mature later than women (sorry guys), but I don't think they have to be at least 10 years older to find one that is mature enough.  For me, I'm not going to lie, 10 years would have probably been too much for me. I wasn't looking for any specific age, mine just turned out to be only 4 months older.

smarter i think. 
a 25 yrs guy and 25yrs lady is usually equal 20yrs guy and 35yrs lady in my book. that excludes our exceptional david.

looking at NL, look at people like topup, karma, gamine, sisi jinx and even good old funmi are far 10yrs+ above their age.

B.O.S.S.:
Now this is what I call dedication. I wonder how many Nigerian Civil servants would be able to “look the other way” when offered a bribe 10times their salary.

That’s typical patriotism shown by the Librarian not the kind of lip-patriotism.

not even your president

GoldCircle:
If only this guy had listened to my advice! Well, it's too late now, life goes on. . .

If only he had used that 'ogbemudia' chewing stick I offered him!

shame

morpheus24:
I smell a "Fatwah" in the air again.

you can just see it coming

chika98:
who said she was interested in you?

God forbid

rikkard:
I am a working class single mother in need of a good, caring, romantic , muslim and God fearing man for a relationship that would lead to marriage. He should be tall ,humorous and working class. Please only serious minded people should get in touch . Thank you

sorry to ask do muslim men marry women with children and divorcees?

Aragonc:
Single mother? Not interested ma'am,period

why na? she call you?  being a single parent is not a diseace. there are many reasons women become single parents.  where your brother wey give her the belle?

eldee:
Forgive me for being old-fashioned but I believe only people that go through the exact situation, as in, living in a country and suffering the exact problems associated with life in Nigeria should have the right to decide who they choose as the leaders.

For goodness sake, that's why diasporans(even those without dual citizenship) are allowed to vote in the countries they live in.
Those that have families back home?? Nah, they don't feel it as some living there would!!!
This is the same way some an NIN knows nothing about the ethnic glass ceiling African-Americans talk about.

i_laugh:
these same diasporians will claim this will not work, this same diasporians will claim it is a total waste of money, these same diasporians will claim Naija is not their country - so, i still ask, why bother with them? why is the question, why?

for goodness sake it is only right.  my wife and i reside in the uk. she is a US citizen. she voted in the last US election with ease.  why cant i be able to vote against your theiving PDP if i choose? by the way i have family and financial link with nigeria.