₦airaland Forum

I am Proudly Nigerian. Divinely arranged. completely accepted. No questions.

Cash for yam strategy. They can't even raise a billion from this, not to talk of Five. I know that any farmer who benefitted from GEJ's fertiliser and used it to produce yams will not turn around to donate the yam to Buhari campaign funds.

Now I know the Buhari picture pose was an imitation.

We cannot afford to have a sick president again. Yaradua's case was enough experience.

Wow

Nigerians are very intelligent. Quote me!

LMAyedun:
Good People, Great Nation.

Yes ooo

He has a long way to go.

Who says Buhari will win the elections?

MuguliciousMUGU:
The problem is not about "probing the past leaders".
The problem is about getting to aso rock first.
And there is no vacancy in aso rock, so he should forget about it and focus on his cattle rearing and his 1 million naira he would use and open a shop to start selling something useful.

Gej till 2019

Very funny

Jarus:
Then you're kidding.

There are 19 states in the north.

Muslims are the clear majority in all but 3 (Benue, Taraba and Plateau ). That's 16 states.

There are significant Christian population, but hardly up to 50%, in Kaduna, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Borno, Kebbi and Adamawa.

In the South, Osun, Oyo and Lagos have not less than 50% Muslim population. Ogun, Ondo, Edo and Ekiti have significant Muslim population.

Add 16 in the North and 3 in the south that have at least 50% Muslim, and that's 19 states out of 36 states, and you still don't agree with a most conservative estimate of 45%?

Thanks for your analysis. Let's leave it that.

Bricklayer that knows budgeting. Well done.

Nctrice:
Sentiments aside! If Nigerians want to do the least thing as applying for a job in the Federal or State Civil service, the Government ask for Originals of Academic credentials and all what not.
So what is all this Bullshit am reading now, the VP candidate of PDP saying that his Academic Cert has been consumed by fire. Now the flag bearer of apc is claiming his Academic cert is seized by the Secretary Military Board?

And these are the people contesting for the top job in this country?

This is unacceptable!

Grossly unacceptable.

Nctrice:
Well the obvious question is "why is the Secretary, Military Board, in possession of the few Academic Certificate GMB has?"

Good question!

Jarus:
The question is still simple: do you believe are up to 45% of Nigerian population? Simple and straightforward. Yes or no answer.

To be honest, I do not believe so; and I have my reasons.

Interesting. MTN pls fulfill the promise oooo.

Jarus:
Funny how you are "not saying Muslims are not less than 45% of Nigerians" and don't agree Muslims are up to 80m

What is the population of Nigerian? What is 45% of it?

Is 45% of Nigeria's 175m population not 80m?

As for your reference to Aribisala's point, I think only an unschooled person will not know that there are a significant Christian population in those states. It's no secret. It's common knowledge. Does it still stop the fact that not less than 45% of Nigerians are Muslim?

So good to know you know about the significant population of Christians in the North...... Take this out of the entire population of the north. The balance would be mostly moslems. Add it to to the rest of the moslem population in the rest parts of the country, do you still think it will come up to 80m? I have my doubts.

SeverusSnape:
Richest Black man is from Nigeria, Richest black woman is from Nigeria... Congratulations to her.

Congratulations to Nigeria too.

Jarus:
So are you saying Muslims are not up to 45% of Nigerians minimum?

That's not what I am saying. But I know that the population of moslems in Nigeria is generally overrated.

We know there are more moslems in the North. But there are also more Christians in there than is generally known. I think one Femi Aribisala was aware of this when he wrote in one Vanguard article as follows:

"It must be pointed out that there are far more Christians in the North than many realise. Adamawa, Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau and Taraba all have majority Christian populations; while Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi, Kwara and Niger have significant Christian populations."

I am sure many Nigerians don't know this statistics. Many ignorantly assume that all northern states are moslems.

dvee2:
With all due respect to this president, why do you always address Nigerians from the church? Monday to Saturdays, you have all the time to address us but you dont until Sundays in the church. Are you not causing religious division? Nigeria is a circular state for Christ sake. What will happen if Buhari address the nation every friday from the mosque? Why are you buying sentiment from christians and causing further division among your countrymen? I know past northern presidents goes to mosques and saudi arabia, but they never address national issues from the pulpit of the mosque. You move from one church to the other every sunday addressing your countrymen in a circular state like nigeria and bigots call Buhari the one that is religious fundamentalist?

Nigeria is a secular state but it doesn't prevent citizens from going to church on Sunday. GEJ goes to church every Sunday. If you are a pastor and the president shows up in your congregation, won't you give him a few minutes to talk to the people? And if you are the president and you are given a chance to talk in church won't you at least talk about national issues?

I think your fears are unfounded. It is not like the president was presenting the annual budget in church or something important along that line.

Buhari can talk in his mosque if he wants. We won't call it religious fundamentism provided he doesn't incite violence and blood shed like he has done in the past.

HugeCock:
No!! No! No!. We are sending you back to ur village. We need change. We dont need a president with no tèsticles. BUHARI FOR PRESIDENT 2015

Yes we need change but I don't see Buhari as the change we need.

Jarus:
There are at least 80m Muslims in Nigeria, for starters, are they holding on to it because of fear too? The last time I checked, no Nigerian has been killed for apostacy.

Sorry the statistics is flawed. Pls don't overrate the population of moslems in Nigeria.

HzRF:
That's how things is in osun
But he didn't try to cover up with lies

OK.

HzRF:
Did you have any information that he paid?

Not at all. I am just surprised that the salaries are still outstanding, 3 months after I got to know tht civil servants in State of Osun were being owed their salaries.

k2039:
[color=soyouquotedme]The bottle was split into two, the eggs were loaded into it, and cellotape was applied to join the bottle back. [/color]

Sharp thinking.

johncreek:
Girls don't care about sex and three other lies I've had to unlearn.

I've heard people say that growing up as an evangelical meant they never talked about sex. This wasn’t my experience. I grew up in the thick of evangelical purity culture and we talked about sex A LOT. We just spent all of that time talking about how and why NOT to have it.

As someone who waited until I was married to have sex, I was assured that I would be guaranteed an easy and rewarding sex life. When reality turned out to be different, I was disappointed and disillusioned. Only through gradual conversations with other married friends did I realize I wasn’t alone.

I started to wonder if maybe the expectations themselves were wrong. Maybe what I’d been told or inferred about post-marital sex simply wasn’t true.

Here are four of the biggest lies about sex I believed before marriage

1. Any and all physical contact is like a gateway drug to sex.

Once in high school I attended a big Christian youth conference. One night, one of the chaperones addressed the girls: “Girls, we have noticed some very inappropriate touching going on...”

The inappropriate touching she meant turned out to be two high school couples in the youth group holding hands. This woman was deadly serious. “I know it may not seem like a big deal to you,” she said. “But hand-holding leads to OTHER THINGS!”

I heard similar things from parents, teachers, church leaders and books. In my church it was not unusual for people to pledge not only to save sex until marriage, but even to save their first kiss for their wedding day. “Don’t start the engine if you aren’t ready to drive the car,” and other similar metaphors warned me that any physical contact was a slippery slope straight into the jaws of fornication.

On this side of things, I can honestly say that there are SO many conscious decisions you have to make between kissing and having sex. Despite what Hollywood says, clothes do not take themselves off and bodies do not magically and effortlessly fit together.

If you are committed to waiting until you’re married to have sex, there are many valid reasons to set boundaries on your physical relationship, but the fear of accidentally having sex shouldn’t be one of them.

2. If you wait until you are married to have sex, God will reward you with mind-blowing sex and a magical wedding night. 


Before my wedding night, I had been told that honeymoon sex isn’t usually the best sex. I had heard that good sex takes work. I knew that it would probably be uncomfortable at first. But what nobody ever, EVER told me was that it was possible that it just might not work at all at first. On my wedding night, my mind and heart were there, but my body was locked up tighter than Maid Marian’s chastity belt.

I entered marriage with the firm conviction that God rewards those who wait, only to find myself confounded by the mechanics. I felt like an utter failure, both as a wife and a woman. And while we did (eventually) get things working, this was hard, frustrating, embarrassing and a huge blow to our confidences.

Saving sex for marriage is not a guarantee that you will have great sex or that sex will be easy. All it guarantees is that the person you fumble through it with will be someone who has already committed to love you forever.

3. Girls don’t care about sex.

As a teenager and young adult I cannot count the times I heard something to this effect: “Boys are very visual and sexual, so even though you aren’t thinking about sex, you need to be careful because you are responsible for not making them stumble.”

Let’s disregard for now how degrading this is toward men and focus on the underlying assumption that boys are sexual and girls aren’t. For years I was told that “girls don’t care about sex.” Well, as it turns out, I do. This has been a deep source of shame for me. For a long time I felt like a freak, until I started to realize that I wasn’t the only one, not by a longshot. But I never knew it because no one would admit it.

Many girls (yes, even Christian girls) think about sex. Many girls (yes, even Christian girls) like sex. This doesn’t make you a freak. It doesn’t make you unfeminine or unnatural. God created us, both men AND women, as sexual beings. Enjoying sex makes you a human being created by God, in the image of God, with the capacity and desire to love—physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and sexually.

MANY GIRLS (YES, EVEN CHRISTIAN GIRLS) THINK ABOUT SEX. MANY GIRLS (YES, EVEN CHRISTIAN GIRLS) LIKE SEX. THIS DOESN’T MAKE YOU A FREAK.

4. When you get married, you will immediately be able to fully express yourself sexually without guilt or shame.

Many Christians have spent years—from the day they hit puberty until their wedding day—focusing their energy on keeping their sex drives in check. Then, in the space of a few hours, they are expected to stop feeling like their sexuality is something they must carefully control and instead be able to express it freely. And not only that—but express it freely with another person.

Many of us have programmed guilt into ourselves—this is how we keep ourselves in check throughout our dating relationships. And that “red light” feeling we train ourselves to obey doesn’t always go away just because we’ve spoken some vows and signed some papers.

It took me several months to stop having that sick-to-my-stomach guilty feeling every time I was together with my husband. Not everyone experiences this, but for the many people who do, it’s terribly isolating. Once again we’re experiencing something our churches and communities never acknowledged as a possibility. We feel alone and broken and filled with a profound sense that this isn’t the way it’s meant to be.

I don’t regret waiting until I was married to have sex, and I’m not advocating that churches stop teaching that sex is designed for marriage. But I do think there is something seriously wrong with the way we’ve handled the conversation.

If our reason for saving sex until marriage is because we believe it will make sex better or easier for us, we’re not only setting ourselves up for disappointment, but we’re missing the point entirely. Those of us who choose to wait do so because we hold certain beliefs about the sacredness of marriage and about God's intentions and wishes for humanity, and we honor these regardless of whether they feel easier or harder. In the meantime, we in the evangelical church has a lot of work to do correcting the distorted ways we talk about sex and sexuality, especially to our youth.


http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/relationships/4-lies-church-taught-me-about-sex

It is ok to talk about sex. But it is not ok to engage in the act until one is married. I trust that this piece will not be missunderstood by some people in this forum

ibson99:
During lunch at work last week, I ate 3 plates of beans (which I know I shouldn't). When I got home, my husband seemed excited to see me and exclaimed delightedly;

"Darling I have a surprise for dinner tonight."

He then blind folded me and led me to my chair at the dinner table. I took a seat and just as he was about to remove my blind fold, the telephone rang. He made me promise not to touch the blind fold until he returned and went to answer the call.

The beans I had consumed were still affecting me and the pressure was becoming unbearable, so while my husband was out of the room I seized the opportunity, shifted my weight to one leg and let one go. It was not only loud, but it smelled like a fertilizer truck running over a skunk in front of a garbage dump! I took my napkin from my lap and fanned the air around me vigorously. Then, shifting to the other leg, I ripped off three more. The stink was worse than cooked cabbage.

Keeping my ears carefully tuned to the conversation in the other room, I went on releasing atomic bombs like this for another few minutes. The pleasure was indescribable!

Eventually the telephone farewells signaled the end of my freedom, so I quickly fanned the air a few more times with my napkin, placed it on my lap and folded my hands back on it feeling very relieved and pleased with myself.

My face must have been the picture of innocence when my husband returned, apologising for taking so long. He asked me if I had peeked through the blind fold, and I assured him I had not.

At this point, he removed the blind fold. To my utmost surprise, twelve dinner guests were seated around the table, with their hands on their nose!

You got me laughing out loud!

Being born in a christian home does not make one a christian. A christian is someone who has accepted Jesus Christ as his/her personal Lord and saviour. We call this being born again. Based on this, none of these socalled stars qualified to have been called a Christian.

HzRF:
How will this ginger aregbe to pay my parents salaries?

Aregbe has not still paid workers salaries? Na wa oooo.

tenry:
One of my friends recently told me how his pastor was making reference to his challenges in the course of preaching to the congregation. According to him, he had been passing through some difflcult time and only went to his pastor for prayer and counselling, he was not expecting his pastor to cite his case as an example while preaching. Although he said the man of God didn't mention his name, the description and details released while preaching made him uncomfortable. I have also listened to pastors telling the congregation what church members have told them during counselling hour. How appropriate is this? Does it not meant to kept secret? Does a pastor has any right to share church members' secret without taking permission from them?

It is true pastors use such examples to buttress their points so the congregation can better relate to the message. But such pastors should be discreet enough so as not to release the identity of the person being used as an example, except of course if they have the permission of the person to share it.

I smell rat in this post!

I am not an atheist; I believe in God.

"The fool has said in his heart,“ There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good."

http://bible.us/Ps53.1.NKJV