₦airaland Forum

kikiwendy:
Next time think before you talk. They weren't imposing it on anyone. It was just a song to make money and you're busy carrying their matter like gala on your head.

While they are making money.. the song has a side effect-- it influences young minds and attached a value of making money at all costs to those minds.

In other words, music is a form of education.

TissuePaper:
Please nairalanders, I'm a final year law student and I just wanted to get first hand information on how lucrative you think the legal profession is, I've heard stories of lawyers graduating and working in a chambers where they are paid 15k per month... Pls how true is this and I'll like to know which branch of law I should specialize in that will fetch me more money.

Your inquiry is a trifle too late, isn't it? Are you going to make a reverse back in time before you embarked on this career?

This sort of issues/topics deprive us our energy on the real issues to be discussed. For example security and defence, federalism, education and infrastructure. The next elections worth these issues..

It is understandable because you don't have to drop collateral security.. The high interest rate covers the costs of obtaining and operating the loans.

dominique:
Very stupid approach. What if the pupil in question doesn't have a father or his father is far away?

Nigerian schools needs to stop attaching stereotypes to families. The father provides, the mother cooks and cleans bla bla bla, it doesn't make sense anymore especially now that both parents do chores and contribute financially to the running of the home. There are homes where the mum pays the bills and the dad stays at home with the kids. There are single parent homes where just one parent bears all the burden. How do you expect children from such homes relate with silly stereotypes?

Would you mind a stay at home husband? What do you think is the first ideal model

Throwback:
Are you too daft to understand what she wrote in her resignation? Or did you read that she left Nigeria as a teenager to go study in a university abroad, thereby necessitating the customary return to Nigeria that only exist in your own imagination?


She only visited Nigeria with her British passport on occasions. She was never a resident of Nigeria until she was 34yrs. Till today, her parents still reside in the UK where she was born.

Her interests in Nigeria only began long after she had passed the age to serve. Many Nigerians born and resident in the UK have graduated below the age of 30yrs, yet they do not come to Nigeria for any NYSC because they do not have any business with Nigeria besides visiting when a grandparent died or a cousin was wedding.

That they do not have any interest with Nigeria now does not mean they might not show an interest later.

These are the same type of Nigerians that are daily celebrated here on this forum, as working with Google or Facebook or NASA or the White House. Nigerians in the diaspora, like the ones that were on hand to receive the vice president when he visited Google in the US. Nigerians that don't even know that anything called NYSC exist as it remains irrelevant to them, until the day they decide they want to be Nigerians and not American or Briton.


So by default she made enquires about securing an exemption, and one was certainly obtained through her associates from NYSC but fake. It was not obtained under the bridge at Obalende. It was certainly obtained from NYSC officials who gave a document that was not the legitimate issue.


Many Nigerians currently hold particulars that they think is legitimate having been obtained at the legitimate relevant government office, yet they are invalid.

This is the most daft post i have ever seen in my "short" stay on Nairaland.

Regardless of whom she enlisted to get her the exemption certificate, she bears the full moral responsibility for certificate debacle.

Corruption has eaten too deep that people have become unconscious to it.

campusflavour:
ABIA STATE HAD ALOT OF ELEPHANTS IN THE BEFORE THE 60S THAT IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED ENYIMBA, ESPECIALLY ABA, NY GRAND FATHER TOLD ME THAT THEN HUMAN USED TO TRAVEL VERY FAR WITH LEG THAT WHEN YOU ARE PASSING ABIA STATE YOU MUST BE VERY WATCHFUL OF ELEPHANTS

And the elephants swore never to cross over the borders of Abia State, right?

tamethem:
They have the right to ban any song they believe should be banned.

The fact that you are a lawyer and having a lawyer father doesn't make you or anyone uncheckable.

This is Nigeria is Correct

But Everybody be Criminal is wrong.

I am not a Criminal neither is anyone in my Family.

My kids are not Criminals and I am daily teaching them why it is wrong to be a Criminal.


We keep saying Naijas image is destroyed outside and you are doing a song that would be played on International TVs and Radio.

I would be ashamed if I sit down with foreign friends in Canada or any other foreign country and such song is aired on Tv or radio done by a Nigerian like me.

That means if I am called a Criminal by anyone I should not be angry because one of my brothers Falz says so.

If he had said " This is Nigeria and there are lots of Criminals" he could fight that in the court and win but with "Everybody be Crimal" he will surely lose the case.

The judge himself would just tell him " I am a Nigerian and I am not a Criminal ".


Case dismissed!


Nonsense!

It would be disastrous for everyone if it was up to NBC to ban any material over the air waves on the basis of its subjective or an irrational belief that such material. is obscene. A more objective standard outside of NBC's standard must be resorted to.

dominique:
I hate that song with a passion, the reason why I have never sat to watch/listen to it more than once in my entire life is because of that particular line.

When you label a population of almost 200 million people as criminals, expect to be banned. Now people are using that line as a justification for getting into fraudulent acts, after all they've already been called criminals anyways. I support the ban, falz take several seats jor.

It is a bit idiotic to give that line a literal meaning and was well be literally annoyed by it. It's an artistic expression, at liberty with its poetic license, critiquing society.

Thats it

ubunja:
i will decide whether to answer you or not

Lool!

MISEDUCATIONS:
you mean this?:

i saw her question. i only addressed her motivations at bolded:

I have popped the question now to you

MISEDUCATIONS:
if it was not alive you wouldnt have to kill it. no one kills a stone. its not alive.

I noticed you dodged a key question @funmisticqueen asked you. Where the mother's life is in imminent danger probably due to her body frame or ill health on account of her pregnancy, would you approve of a doctor's advice to abort the foetus?

funmisticqueen:
where in the constitution does the foetus has rights, i think you are mixing up foetuses with babies and children who have rights because they are individuals which a foetus isnt

The constitution provides for a right to life but the extent of that right will be decided either by the courts or legislature. Whether that extent would cover foetus will be equally determined by the courts or legislature.

However at common law a foetus can enjoy benefits of property or a will. These enjoyment are a hallmark of personhood. An object obviously can not possess property but where a company is said to possess property it is because it is a person in law.

funmisticqueen:
i like the anglevyou bring to the table.
first, is the foetus an individual, does it have rights? especially in Nigeria.

how has Nigerians benefited from culture that it has to be considered in making decisions concerning the health of the masses?

Under Nigerian law a foetus has very limited rights including some sort rudimentary right to life. I think we ought to focus on the social merits of empowering a foetus rather than focus on what the law says because eventually the law will follow the path policy dictates.

The health of the masses is good policy. Equally is population control.

We both agree that a foetus is human and that humanity is common with us and it's that humanity we identify our rights to exist. Rights being fundamental.

By denying the foetus any rights despite its humanity can spell doom for ours

Cuteamigo1:
the question was asked why Nigerian people and not the nigerian constitution is against abortion and i gave my opinion. many countries around the world align with my opinion so dont make it look like am alone on this. bye

What does "Nigerian people" really mean? Nigeria is too diverse in culture and worldview to assume all Nigerians irrespective of culture and ways are against abortion. Most educated Nigerians especially medical professionals advocate for abortion for some limited purposes. Urban Nigerians are more receptive to abortion that their rural counterparts

Cuteamigo1:
really? i hate to deviate but who then protects the health of the father when you ladies decide to pin him down with a pregnancy even when he opts for abortion? this is more evidence that you only clamor for what benefits you guys even if it is to the detriment of others. a new law is being proposed in the west where men will now share equal right with women in cases of abortion. so you mean if you are carrying a child for your husband or boyfriend today, devoid of his opinion you can just stroll into an abortion clinic and have the baby sliced and diced because it threatens your mental and social wellbeing? thats sounds cruel to me and in my opinion its murder except ofcoure if it threatens you physical health then why not? we all have a right to self defense.

Whatever murder is, is a question of law not of your sentiments. Yes the foetus was killed but if the law allows it, then it was killed lawfully. Just in the same way self defence and military action are lawful killings because they killings the law permits for whatever policy.

@funmisticqueen

I think your argument that because poorly executed abortions by non professionals should be a basis for legitimizing abortions generally is fallacious. For every criminalized act, a black market substitute automatically becomes available. For example marijuana, fire arms and alcohol whenever they are prohibited the black market is eager to provide them at either a higher cost or lower quality or even both. So similarly your argument would work in support of each of these cases otherwise.

I also think that this question of abortion cannot be confined entirely as a legal question. A socio-economic context along with a number of other contexts is required for any meaningful discussion on abortion to be made. What are the values and mores of this society and how do they reflect against the question of abortion.

Finally a mother can argue she has rights as a person and it can be argued on behalf of a foetus that it can be endowed with rights as well. But one must admit that these rights should not be a zero sum game. An addition on the mother's right is a subtraction from the foetus' rights; and this works vice versa.

lightblazingnow:
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.


1 Corinthians 1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1:26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence





You know the meaning of the grace of Jesus Christ, the Blessing of his coming to the earth, the benefits to earth and the world, the children who are born not by the will power of man.


John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.


This kind of wealthiest, money can not buy, you shouldn't equate such with natural standing, we are talking about eternal life which is actually the dream of every living creatures, yet no one knows the way the truth and the life eternal. Giving His brethren a New birthday party is far more natural than you could ever imagine.


2 Corinthians 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.


Please don't equate this kind of Blessing with money, we already told you it's a new birth, New inheritance, a brand new family of God Almighty


Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.



Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.




1 Corinthians 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.




This is the wealth, the true enduring wealth. Not some dirty money, which when you love will make you to do all manner of Evi. The love of money is the root of all Evi the scriptures warns believers in the New birth, chosen generations, peculiar people, the holy nations. But when you love the lord God Almighty such will lead you to peace and life ever more. Did you see the difference?


Proverbs 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.


I have shown you the secret today, making many rich is by showing them their inheritance in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, not anything to do with earthly things.


Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.


Amen

Although it's a bad reading habit to cut and chop bible passages without regard for the context they are to be read in; nonetheless i think these passages are about afterlife in heaven not wealth on earth

[quote author= post=69389429]My dear, elections are not conducted on social media. You need money (plenty of it), strategy, boots on the ground, good ground game, brain work and clarity of vision to win elections. It is a game of numbers. It is foolhardy for anyone to think that APC would be thrown away from Aso Rock just 3 years after! Those who think in that way, are politically short-sighted and fatally myopic. I will explain.

APC grew from Lagos. It then expanded and captured most of the southwest states except Ondo. Then it captured Edo and lost Ekiti. Then it captured Imo. Then, Aso Rock. With Aso Rock[b], it also captured 25 out of 36 States.[/b] Recently, it got back Ondo and has added Ekiti today. That means APC is in control of the finances and power of the Federal Government of Nigeria, controls 19 state government and finances! It also controls the Police, EFCC, ICPC, DSS, Army, Navy, Air Force, Civil Defence, NIA, DMI, etc. On the other hand, PDP which used to control the Federal Government and more than 24 States at a time, only has 10 States and nothing more. To make matters worse, the 10 states are being held and run by extremely unpopular gluttonous crooks with itchy fingers. 

Add to that brew, is a President who has loyal followers and cult-like dedicated supporters - stuff no other politician in our common history has ever got. The outcome is a party that would rule for a pretty long time. By my extrapolation, APC would run this country for at least 20 years unbroken. If the infrastructure revival currently going on across the country gets the necessary continued attention, APC might rule for up to 5 unbroken decades. 

PDP would die a natural death after 2019, just as a lot of the regular politicians would be permanently retired either back home, or to Kuje Prison. Mark these words.


.............as we said earlier, 
Sisimmi, this wonderful post belongs to FrontPage. 
You are so inside our head.
You've said it all!
Happy for the indigenes of Ekiti life from freeing themselves from the shackles of CORRUPTION. [/quote]Of what use or relevance would the death of PDP have when it neither represents a coherent ideology and it's members easily migrate to APC?

Also what ideology that permeates its members does APC have?

Thukzee01:
France = the only African team left in the world cup

I so much agree

One wonders what happened to his passengers

yesboss20:
Yes, my Father is the Light, the Light of the world, the Creator of all, the LORD Almighty!

In other words i was saying your God is just one side of life not everything.

Interesting to see how therapeutic Christianity can be to our restless bestial nature.

Does Christianity really change the bestial makeup of man? Can Christianity succeed to quieten man's ambitions or emotions or passions or impulses which often overcome his sense of reasoning and drive man to anger sin and all?

One's innermost desires are not always publicly approved of. Probably he is in a more honest society where the quirks of one's desires can be expressed. Not everyone wants a young damsel

Emmanystone:
Are you all wired this way when it comes to God, or you guys do this deliberately?

Read all i typed and read what you just typed here and see your dishonesty in trying to twist things.

I repeat, God as in YHWH, has no need for man. If He does, you as an individual shd do well to tell me what you do for God. How does He cope with a very little fragment of humanity identifying Him as their Creator?

I said, God created man for man. We are created to love and serve each other. But as an atheists, why will you want to do a thing like that? After man is just a bag of bones held together by skin.

We basically said the same thing. Same gist. Man was created for man. Which is running in circles. And which i thought was dubious and empty.

Glad that Emmanystone finally revealed the purpose of man on earth which is to be for other men. However my suspicions are raised by the fact that this purpose of man goes round in circles. Man, unlike tools, is not applied to a pre-existing challenge or condition. Man is not solution to any purpose other than himself. Man is awkwardly, and to some absurdly, the tool for the tool. Like a hammer serves to repair itself. Or nail to nail itself.

Nonetheless Emmystone has stated the purpose of man within Christianity. Who are we to question it.

Still it worrisome that the creator found no use for his creation.

Emmanystone:
The question 'WHY DID GOD CREATE MAN' or, 'WHAT IS MAN'S purpose ON Earth?'.

Let's see what the creator who created man says.

WHY DID GOD CREATE MAN?=== FOR FELLOWSHIP, FOR RELATIONSHIP. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Genesis:2:19

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis:3:8

God created man to have a family of a different specie to do things together with. He created man to have a different kind of interaction, from the one he has with Angels.

Something like this,

YHWH== 'Adam, i will create, you will name".

Adam== Yes, Lord.

YHWH comes in the cool of the day for a visit.

Adam: Lord, this is a beautiful garden, so many fruits. I get confused from choosing which one to eat sometimes

YHWH: Oh, that should not be a problem, you can all of them except that one over there, it is poisoned, and poison kills.

Adam: Okay Lord.

YHWH: What did you call that creature over there?

Adam:, Oh, Lion, i called it Lion.

YHWH: That's great work you are doing here.

Did you See fellowship?

PURPOSE= MANDATE ==Genesis 1:26.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

The operative word in that verse is LET. This means allow them, do not interfere with, give them room, right, space, opportunity, power, and absolute authority to rule, dominate, the earth.

The Earth was created for man just like man was created for the earth. Man was put in a garden fully stock with what he needed for sustanance, that's why every human baby is born without the innate ability to care for itself until after a time on earth.

Every thing visible and invisible was already created and functional before man drew his first earth's breath.

God saw this day when men will begin to think they can help and add to Him, or without them He(God) can not function, hence, He made man last.

You can say to me, But, God needs man to fellowship with Him, without which God will be lonely. Man is very important to God.

The question then will be, how was God coping before He created man? And how did He cope after Man declared independence and left?

How is God coping now since very few persons actually fellowships with Him? There are so many so-called Christians or believers actually don't fellowships with Him, has it changed Him in anyway?

Who actually benefits from that time together, Man or God?/


GOD HAS NO NEED FOR MAN, BUT MAN HAS EVERY NEED FOR GOD.

Without his Complacent love, the rain won't fall on you, His sun won't shine on you. You'll plant crops they wont yield any fruits. You'll have sex and not have kids.

Be grateful to God that even when you reject and insults Him everyday, he still loves you. But that love expires the day you draw your ladt breath.

Almost everyone here on this thread has accepted that God needs no one because he is self sufficient however we are all eager and puzzled to know why he created man whom he doesn't need. Your long epistle aside from being repetitive doesn't answer the question

Emmanystone:
You are still at the point of 'Use'. When you use the word 'Use' you'll still be implying God has use for man.

God has no use for man, for God was complete in Himself before He created man.

Man adds nothing to God. We don't improve him. If we do, He wouldn't create and keep us in a different reealn from Himself.

He created us for us. That's why He gave us everything to be like Him in our own realm. But to navigate our realm, we needed to depend on Him, for created the world and us.

Ask yourself this. Why is the human baby the only creature that is so helpless at birth. Every other animal begins fending for themselves right from birth. Even a snake as seeminly vulnerable as it is, begins looking for food immediately it begins to breath, but a human child gets up to two years to know how to care for it self. Why?

The reason is, God has made it so. We are helpless hence; depend on Him for everything.

The Human baby can only cry out of helplessness to get attention, even adults. It is that helplessness that makes you think 'there's no God, for if there is, this and that shd be in place'.

I would rephrase my question what use does God have for man to have use for himself?

Emmanystone:
Lolzzz. No girl. You got it all wrong. I think the question you shd be asking is 'Why did God create man?' He didn't create man because he is lacking something which only man can argument, or is there any other reason or purpose He did? Pls let me know

because, your underlining premise is, 'If God is self sufficient, then He didn't need to create man'. You don't tell Him what or not to do.

For instance, you and your likes, rejects Him all day. You not only reject Him, but proceed to malign Him. He gets nothing from you. Nothing in Him has diminished, (except you'd say it has, then you'd ve to tell me). Yet, His complacent love is still showered on you.

You still freely breath His air, get warmth from His Sun. His rain still fall on you. When you have sex, you'd get pregnant and have a Child. What has He lost by your rejection of Him. It is from this premise you shd ask yourself if God really needs man, and if Yes, what for?

For what use was man created for?

Emmanystone:
Yes indeed, God is all sufficient, that's why He doesn't need man, but man can not do without God, for outside of Him, man has no purpose.

The underlying premise is that God is self sufficient and by that character of self sufficiency man can not add or increase God. Hence man has no purpose to God and God wouldn't bother to create man as a result. God wouldn't need to create anything again for the reason of his self sufficiency.

Emmanystone:
You tacitly agreed with me that you need God or God needs you? Which? Let's not be coy here. Be direct.

God, includes every imaginable creator, wouldn't need humans because of his self sufficiency. Invariably humans would not have a purpose as a hammar does.

Emmanystone:
You didn't answer my question. You and YHWH who needs who? If he needs you, what can you add to him to improve him?

Which was what i tacitly agreed with you