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Culture / Re: Your Thoughts On African Americans Moving Back To Africa. by k10: 11:09am On Feb 20, 2013
I believe it can be done, it might not be a large area, maybe something like an island to start with, only problem is where can you find a govt that can give you such land without any interference especially when there is a change in govt.
Politics / Re: Senate Queries N4bn First Lady’s House by k10: 8:10pm On Jan 31, 2013
why do we like wasting money like this?

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Car Talk / Re: Picture Of A Car In A Cage by k10: 1:46pm On Jan 13, 2013
maybe the cage was built for something else and he decided to park his car there.

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Car Talk / Re: Picture Of An Overloaded Car by k10: 3:12pm On Jan 04, 2013
ghose guys are wicked. that car is going to defy every law available to be able to move.
Romance / Re: How Do You Know If Your Partner Is “the One” For You? by k10: 2:04pm On Dec 29, 2012
you know she is the one when she is pregnant for you and her father is in the army

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Politics / Re: FG Uncovers Boko-Haram Plot To Attack 10 States by k10: 9:29am On Dec 24, 2012
I am sure someone just wakes up in the morning and makes up this reports, what is new in the report that we don't already know?
Religion / Re: How Do You Differentiate Between The Holyspirit And Your Conscience? by k10: 10:53am On Dec 23, 2012
Mostly through experienc, as you become more mature and have deeper fellowship with the Holy Spirty, you begin to differentiate.
Travel / Re: Fire At Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) by k10: 2:46pm On Dec 20, 2012
smoke signal for incoming planes

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Politics / Re: FG To Conduct Census Of Jobless Nigerians In 2013... by k10: 9:43am On Dec 20, 2012
bad idea, so many employed people will register as unemployed just in case some remuneration is later paid in future...

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Nairaland / General / Re: Who Is Your Nigerian Of The Year by k10: 4:38pm On Dec 19, 2012
myself
Religion / Oke: The Stone That The Builders Rejected by k10: 8:32am On Dec 12, 2012
RECENTLY, the Nigerian press was awash with a deluge of criticisms about Pentecostal ministers buying jets and living in affluence. Beautiful! This is the same Pentecostal movement that started as the church of the poor, the downtrodden, the strugglers, and the dregs of the earth. We were labelled as “poor church rats”, “mushroom churches”, “SU”, and with such horrible, derogatory names. I personally remember being warned in 1975 to stop going to the church of “those who weep when they pray”. I was asked what problem I had that drove me to that kind of church. According to them, the members were poor and never-do-well.

Today, the story has changed! We are being criticized for buying jets! But they forgot that before we started to buy jets, we were winning souls in thousands and millions, turning men and women from darkness to light. We were transforming lives, giving them beauty for ashes. We were empowering people, equipping them with the revelation knowledge of God’s word that lifts men out of the pit of poverty, to the pinnacle of grace and dominion! We were empowering the poor, not only giving them fish to eat but also teaching them how to fish. We were building schools that were giving quality education to the people, empowering them mentally to become prominent (these include those throwing stones at us now!). We were building universities. We were transforming our society and changing our nation, one soul at a time.

Imagine what Nigeria would have been without the labours and the influence of the church, particularly the Pentecostals and the Charismatics! It would have been a living hell, if with all our positive, godly efforts; we are still in the mess that our nation is today!

Our critics fail to observe that we have not stopped doing those things that brought us into relevance and prominence. Though we have climbed the ladder of grace to rise from the pit of poverty to the mountain top of affluence, we still genuinely reach the poor masses of the downtrodden daily, showing them the way to life, the way to abundance and dominion, the way to righteousness and holiness, justice and equity, the way to God and glory, not only in the world to come but also in this present life.

Our critics do not understand the way of God, that when someone sows, he or she must reap; that those who sow in tears shall reap with joy. If they were to control the harvest, they would have left us to continue to labour and languish all through our lives, from generation to generation, reaping nothing out of our field of labour.

They have seen a few jets. They ain’t seen nothing yet! More of us will yet buy and maintain our jets because, by the mercy of God, we have been given the wisdom to do so. And we are willing to teach the nation, if they will listen to us, rather than throw stones.

However, our critics should know that the jets mean nothing to us! They are just tools to do the work that God has given us in a more effective manner. Or how can an Enoch Adeboye who has churches in over 160 nations of the earth cope with his pastoral and apostolic responsibilities without some private jets! He does not need just one. He needs some!

How can an Ayo Oritsejafor, who has to minister around the globe, pastor a very large congregation in Warri, and still attend to critical national matters in Abuja cope if he has to keep waiting at the airports, in a system where nothing is predictable? Our critics should please note that more of us are following the trail of the likes of Adeboye, whose wealth and affluence has never stopped him from being a true shepherd of the poor and downtrodden, in true humility, simplicity and godly sincerity, a shining example of true Pentecostalism and Charismatic wisdom.

The nation should have turned to the church for wisdom. How do you provide electricity for your massive organisations and campsites and we have not been able to power the nation? How have you been able to maintain your jets for years, and we don’t even have a national carrier? How do you make your schools, colleges and universities such first-class institutions and ours are dilapidating, riddled with cultism and violence in spite of so much money we are pumping into them again and again? How have you been able to truly live and accommodate yourselves in spite of coming from the North, South, East, and West and with such cultural diversities, whereas the nation is filled with mindless violence and hatred, based on tribal sentiments and primordial jingoism?

How could you handle leadership and power in a way that makes your huge organisations so stable and peaceful whereas our own political leaders are at one another’s throats?

Rather than blind, and sometimes irreverent, criticisms that flow out of a mixture of ignorance and envy, the Pentecostals should have been asked, how did you move from a people that were despised and rejected to becoming the jet owners, institution pioneers and nation-builders that you are today?

We would have answered them in this manner: We are the stones that the builders rejected, which have become the heads of the house. This is the doing of the Lord and it is marvellous in our own eyes. Our only explanation is, God’s grace has lifted the poor out of the dust and the beggars out of the dunghill.

I wish every Nigeria a violence-free, restful and beautiful Christmas and a glorious 2013. More Pentecostal jets are on the way, and we owe no apology about that. Come along with us, and you too will soon become a solution, a job provider, a pioneer, and no more a part of our national rot, corruption and inefficiency.

You are blessed and highly favoured.

• Bishop Oke is National Vice President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, South-West.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107384:oke-the-stone-that-the-builders-rejected&catid=38:columnists&Itemid=615
Foreign Affairs / Re: UK Nurse In Kate Middleton Radio Prank Call Committs Suicide by k10: 10:23pm On Dec 07, 2012
if na so dem dey commit suicide for naija, who for remain?
Health / Re: Itching Balls For Months Now by k10: 8:00pm On Dec 07, 2012
you sure say na perfume you spray? you better talk true make we help you!

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Career / Re: Kindly Help A Frustrated Soul by k10: 2:41pm On Dec 05, 2012
You just can't give up, why don't you use the brains you would use for the drug trafficking to something better. It is not easy, I know but we all have our stories to tell. All I can say is don't give up, there is a always a way, just think harder.
Politics / Re: Nigerians Not Captured In 2016 Census Will Lose Citizenship by k10: 8:24am On Nov 29, 2012
Is he sure he will still be in office by that time ?
Jokes Etc / Ladies, If U Want A Very Patient Man by k10: 3:08pm On Nov 19, 2012
Ladies, if u want a very patient man date an arsenal fan, if u want an humble man date a liverpool fan, if u want a man dat wil spend money on u anyhow, date a chelsea fan, if u want a man dat wil do any tyn 2 make u win goals in lyf,date a man utd fan. if u want a man dat has evrytyn in lyf n still wants more, date a barca fan. Nyc nyt
Phones / Re: NCC Bans All Telcos From Promotions And Lotteries by k10: 7:12am On Nov 13, 2012
U sure this is not a big conspiracy between MTN and NCC so MTN can come out and say "sorry guys you can't win an aeroplane cos NCC has banned it".
Hmmmm
Phone/Internet Market / Re: Need Advice On The Type Of Phone Or Laptop To Buy? Here's The Place by k10: 4:23pm On Nov 04, 2012
can i get a laptop for around 55k?
Romance / Re: If You Had To Dedicate A Song To The One You Love,what Song(s) Would It Be? by k10: 8:40am On Oct 29, 2012
don't change by musiq soul child
Family / Re: Does The LOVE For The Neighbor Still Exist? by k10: 10:54am On Oct 26, 2012
at time went on, we started to become too westernised...
Politics / Re: Christian Arrested Attempting To Board Hajj Flight by k10: 5:03pm On Oct 01, 2012
this is a man who wants to travel and is looking for free ticket!!
Education / Re: Neco Release June/july Results,records Improvement 28sep 2012 by k10: 9:08am On Sep 28, 2012
how to check the result?
Politics / Re: Obasanjo To Boko-Haram: “You Can Never Win This War” by k10: 9:42am On Sep 15, 2012
but they can still make a point and kill many innocent people...

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Jokes Etc / Re: Sh*t Nigerian Parents Say by k10: 5:59pm On Sep 07, 2012
the babes aint bad!!
Family / Re: Adewusi Name Meaning by k10: 3:46pm On Aug 18, 2012
thank you
Family / Adewusi Name Meaning by k10: 5:41am On Aug 14, 2012
Please does anyone know the meaning of the name adewusi, need it urgently
Thank you.
Computers / Re: Google To Include People's Gmail In Search Results by k10: 3:17pm On Aug 09, 2012
you can only search your gmail account...

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Jokes Etc / Re: 30 Provoking & Unbelievable Facts by k10: 2:41pm On Aug 07, 2012
NO. 1 is wrong
Religion / Re: -_- by k10: 2:23pm On Aug 05, 2012
I had a similiar experience, God won't change, the message would always be No, you just have to be patient and after some time, the attraction would fizzle out, God would surely bring your wife to you and by then you would be thankful ( if you are lucky, God might tell you why he said NO)
All the best
Career / Re: Why Crucify Dangote For Providing Jobs For Unemployed Graduates. by k10: 4:42pm On Aug 03, 2012
I really don't think anyone goes for hnd or bsc thinking one day "I will be a truck driver working for dangote"!!
think about it
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Aero Contractors Customer Service Agents: Port-Harcourt And Abuja by k10: 5:11pm On Jul 25, 2012
what address will the cv be sent to ?

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Crime / Re: Family Of 5 Arrested For Kidnapping In Imo by k10: 11:10am On Jul 15, 2012
the amazing thing is, she went to other compounds to raise alarm, but they rejected her..

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