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Deckline:
cc kenerd. I meant this one.

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Filmewell:
You have tried oo. Since 2014. But let me ask you sir in your unbelief has there ever been a period you felt like maybe you are wrong and you want believe again.
Many people do not have faith but still believes somehow because it costs them nothing and lose nothing.

one thing I'm sure of is if god is so omniscient and omnipotent, he should know those who truly believe. You cannot pretend to believe, it just doesn't work.

budaatum:
Please ensure you are keeping copies of these posts. I ran a similar thing in another forum years ago but lost it all when the forum went down. It will make a good book someday.

Hmm good point.

phrancis99:
Thanks man!
I'm so happy.... Filled with joy

oh you sent me a PM.i I can't login to the mail now reach me on Okonmahk@gmail.com
congratulations, AAU Ekpoma no easy Sha oh.

Elparaiso:
Send him a PM please. Some of us are here to read and comment. Not argue.

abi oh. your arguments are pointless to begin with self.

remi1444:
boss, I've met some of my colleague in law that knows me from this thread.
pick the venue and we'll meet.

all week days are busy in college and we have no business on campus except for practicals. Suggest someplace.

AAU Ekpoma
100 level
Medicine and surgery
Thanks for including me odunharry

it should be now. what about those that are admitted after matric. let's meet let's meet till now everybody just lock up, make una continue.

I lost access to my previous account kswag13 and registered again July 20 2017 with this moniker, pls any way for me? cc richiez ,xfire

thanks

Thewhizzkid1:
Yh boss. Anything?

pls can I get your WhatsApp contact or something... I wanna speak with you....

pilotoz. reply ASAP

thewhizzkid1 anytime you see this message. pls reply

If he doesn't use it, who will?

CAPSLOCKED:

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS KARMA.
WHAT DID HITLER GET?

LOOK AT LITTLE KIDS THAT ARE RAPED OR KILLED. LOOK AT SLAVERY AND BLACKS STILL SUFFERING. IF KARMA EXISTED SHOULDN'T THERE HAVE BEEN REPERCUSSIONS AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS?

WHEN SOMEONE HURTS YOU AND GETS CANCER HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DID TO YOU? WHAT IF THEY WERE GOING TO GET CANCER ANYWAY? WERE YOU THE ONLY ONE THAT THEY'VE HURT?
WHICH ONE OF THE PEOPLE HURT WOULD GET THE KARMA CREDIT?
WHEN YOUR CHILD GETS SICK OR EVEN DIES WAS THAT YOUR CHILD'S KARMA OR YOURS? WHEN A COMPANY GOES BANKRUPT AND YOU LOSE YOUR JOB WAS THAT THE COMPANY OWNERS KARMA OR WAS IT YOURS?


KARMA IS JUST ANOTHER RELIGIOUS BELIEF HUMANS MADE UP TO COMFORT THEMSELVES.
KARMA CLAIMS THAT YOU WILL BE PUNISHED FOR BAD ACTIONS AND WILL BE REWARDED FOR POSITIVE ACTIONS. THIS LAW SAYS IT'S ALWAYS TRUE, WHEN THERE ARE MILLIONS OF CASES WHERE IT ISN'T.

FROM THE DRUG LORD WHO IS A BILLIONAIRE TO THE CHILD BORN WITH TWO HEADS, DO YOU THINK THEY REALLY DESERVE WHAT THEY HAVE? WHAT COULD AN UNBORN BABY HAVE DONE THAT WAS SO EVIL? EVEN IF THE PARENTS WERE ABUSIVE, IS IT REALLY FAIR TO PUNISH THE CHILD? BRINGING UP PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WON'T MATTER BECAUSE THERE ARE SUCH THINGS AS COINCIDENCES. AND IF KARMA AFFECTS THE "NEXT LIFE," IS THAT JUSTIFIED EITHER? IF PEOPLE ARE TO BE REINCARNATED, THEY WILL BE GIVEN A BRAIN AND PERSONALITY DIFFERENT FROM THEIR OLD SELVES, SO IS THIS MORALLY CORRECT?

I FIND IT EXTREMELY LIKELY HUMANS ONLY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF KARMA TO MAKE THEMSELVES MORE COMFORTABLE, JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH THE CONCEPT OF GODS AND AN AFTERLIFE.

Abi oh.... thanks for sharing hopefullandlord

joseph1013:
MISSING FATHER & SON

We are told Jesus was a man who was seen by thousands, yet it's not possible to show beyond reasonable doubt that he ever existed.

What then, are the chances of showing that his invisible, immaterial dad (who was seen by no one) ever existed?

Pretty slim, I'd say. Might explain why no one has ever managed it.

I'll be an ingrate if I fail to acknowledge your efforts from time to time.

joseph1013:
“Tax Compliance, Transferred Hope and Agaciro”
by Jekwu Ozoemene

I remember early this year when a friend noted in a presentation that the regional offices of Nigeria’s major Pentecostals remit a minimum of N200 Million per week to the centre while the smaller Pentecostal churches generate about N30 Million per week. He had gone beyond that slide when I called his attention to it, noting that he probably meant N200 Million and N30 Million per month respectively (both still very handsome figures), but he insisted that his numbers are correct.

It turns out that Nigeria’s 5 major Pentecostal churches alone generate between N5 Billion to N7 Billion in collections every week; N28 Billion / N20 Billion per month (if you opt for either the upper or lower figures) or N336 Billion / N240 Billion per annum.

To put this in further perspective, Lagos State with the highest Internally Generated Revenue capacity in the country managed N302.5 Billion IGR in the whole of 2016, Rivers State came in second at N85.28 Billion, Ogun N72.98 Billion, and Delta N44.045 Billion. In all, 35 States in Nigeria generated N801.9 Billion in IGR in 2016 (2016 IGR figures for Anambra and the Abuja FCT are unavailable).

And I get the argument that the funds received by these churches are “Free Will” gifts. I even understand when congregants argue that investment by the Church is not determined by the Daddy GO / Papa / Prophet / Pastor, and point to schools, football teams, hospitals, old people’s homes etc being run by these institutions.

It just scares me that the most populous and viable State in Nigeria, being Lagos, with all its responsibilities to 26 million citizens, generates considerably less revenue than the 5 major Pentecostal churches in Nigeria.

For a nation, this is a lot of “Free Will” donations that cannot be systematically and professionally channeled to strategic infrastructure needs (and yes, I know that we already have corruption in public service). The why, if you ask me, could be that there appears to exist a trust deficit (moral rule, sentiments, fairness and relationship between taxpayers and government) between the Nigeria sovereign and her people leading to low “Tax Morale” (the intrinsic motivation to pay tax).

This is further accentuated when you note that the country has one of the lowest Tax Revenue to GDP ratios in the world of 6.1%, ahead of only 11 countries; DRC at 5.9%, Angola at 5.7%, Saudi Arabia at 5.3%, Burma at 4.9%, Bahrain at 4.8%, Chad at 4.2%, Libya at 2.7%, Qatar at 2.2%, Equatorial Guinea at 1.7%, Kuwait at 1.5% and UAE at 1.4% (note the number of laggards that are emerging markets oil producing countries?). Citizens will rather give to the Church and other religious bodies (transfer all hopes and aspirations to God) than voluntarily or mandatorily contribute to government and infrastructure development.

And I hear the argument that we already provide infrastructure through various self-help initiatives; boreholes, private security, generators, even roads, schools and health care, however, all this silo resolutions will ultimately be more effective and less expensive if aggregated.

The Rwanda Government preaches the spirit of “Kwigira” – “Self-Reliance” and “Dignity” on the basis of which they have set up various investment platforms and an Infrastructure fund based simply on citizens “Free Will” contributions. So you see individual or corporate citizens who make free will contributions of up to 10% of their monthly or annual income to the fund (and I agree that there appears to be social pressure to comply), much in the same way that Christians engage in Tithing. The RNIT Iterambere Fund as well as Agaciro Development Fund, a Solidarity Fund (Agaciro is the Kinyarwanda word for “Dignity”, implying that Rwandans lost Dignity from the erstwhile reliance on foreign aid).

But that will be asking for too much from Nigerians. So for now, let us just accept that in Nigeria, “Believing God” and “Sowing a Seed” generates more revenue than taxes. Or (and I say this with all sense of responsibility, conscious of how sensitive religion is to us as a people) we tax the Churches and religious bodies. Should religious bodies act as quasi tax aggregators?

Which way Nigeria?

just 5 major churches oh. I'm stunned...

Swittzz0054:
Dis thread is now very quiet ohh...... has anyone get matric number

gotten mine

remi1444:
av attended lectures for two consecutive days, faculty of law ain't joking fa.

school don resume officially?

DancingSkeleton:
igbinedion's hoste portal was opened for less than 5 mins b/w 7:59am - 8:04 am Saturday morning, the remaining soace would be cleared manually

But you have to pay online na.... so does it mean I can still get space @ igbenedion or better still clinical hostel?.... I didn't want to waste time in order not to lose it all....

collinometricx:
Nor worry i 4gt say 2 na for girls... but e can smell for africa

lol, thanks for the heads up bro.

collinometricx:
Just pray is nt d second one

I don enter...... sorry what's with the second block?

Cms38:
I'm in school

update us bro, what's happening?

collinometricx:
First ,second or third block?

wasn't stated,I think I'll know when I go for hostel clearance.

I suggested WhatsApp group. Una no respond.

Tony56,,, how far? cleared?.... igbenedion hostel is out of bed space, I tried to apply today. medical and igbenedion are filled..... I got onyearugbulem. Tony56, now I get your point... people that know about this have lobbied and booked down already. Now you're hindered cos you've not been cleared.

Swittzz0054:
Have u paid school fees?

I have today.... pay quickly so that you will get hostel space oh.... me na I'm sad cos medical hostel is out of bed space.... I'm not happy @ all.

collinometricx:
hostel clearance has started oohhhh

me day go school Wednesday oh.... I have to pay before Tuesday before medical college run out of rooms abeg

cisca2001:
Yes I got eighty one

wow.... just hope you make it in the last batch, if there's one.... but AAU sha.... 81.... me had 82 oh and someone with 78 entered via 2nd batch

did you get up to the cut off?

cisca2001:
medicine

guys, collinometricx, is hostel clearance really starting tomorrow cos I want to go to school this week maybe Wednesday or so, abi make I no waste money.....