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I think God is trying to convey a message with the actions of these soldiers. First, it was the statue of Jesus. Now, it's a statue of Mary. God may be saying that idolatry is present in some quarters of Christianity. These statues are like idols that some Christians are worshipping. No wonder Israelis of the Jewish religion (Judaism), consider Christians to be idol worshippers. God said in the first and second commandment, that you shall have no other gods before me; and you shall not make any graven image...These statues of Jesus and Mary that the Israeli soldiers mock, are graven images that violate the second commandment. Christians of all denominations should take a hint and refrain completely from having and revering these statues (idols) of Jesus and Mary.

Validated:
I love Peter Obi, but I think his latest move was a fatal political suicide.

With NDC splitting opposition votes, APC has a greater chance for reelection come 2027. Except ADC loses its cases, and it is deregistered or leadership handed over to Nafiu Bala Gombe, the opposition will again split its about 16m votes into two and hand presidency back to Tinubu.

Come 2031, power will shift to the North naturally, meaning Obi cannot contest. The coast would then be clear for Kwankwaso and Atiku to slug it out.

All those supporting PO move are selfish political rent seekers like the Okada rider, who used Obi to get to the NASS and later deflect.

My suggestion to Obi and NDC is this, reenergise the opposition by rekindling the coalition. If possible, allow ADC to present Atiku, so long as the the pending cases are resolved and a single term agreement is reached with Atiku. I mean, a furm written agreement signed by all parties. Otherwise, as it was in 2023, wherein LP coukd not man 40% of it polling units, NDC does not seem to have the structure to checkmste APC at the polls, so we are heading to the same argument of "we won, but our votes were stolen". Thereafter, the courts will do the needful.

As for Atiku, he should also put Nigeria interest above self. If AA feels the country is drifting into nothingness, he could shelve his ambition 2027, support a united opposition under NDC . Get Obi and Dickson in a room, trash out your differences, unify the opposition and take back power from APC. I thought this was the Ibadan Agreement.

I had a dream this morning that Peter Obi fell into a ditch. The first thing that came to my mind about the dream was his recent move from ADC to NDC. The dream seems to be saying that his last move from ADC to NDC can be likened to falling into a ditch.

ridevendor:
Honestly…

I used to think people were exaggerating when they complained about maintaining a car in Nigeria.

Until I sat down one day and calculated everything properly.

And I won’t lie… I was shocked.

Let’s Break It Down

This is just an average car owner trying to maintain a decent vehicle.

Not even luxury.

Fuel

Depending on movement:
₦10,000 – ₦30,000+ weekly

And if you move around a lot?
Even worse.

Maintenance

This one humbles people fast.

* Oil servicing
* Brake pads
* Suspension
* Tyres
* Battery

One small issue can suddenly become:

> ₦80k
> ₦150k
> ₦300k

Just like that.

Nigerian Roads

This one deserves its own section honestly.

Bad roads damage:

* Tyres
* Shock absorbers
* Alignment
* Underbody

Sometimes it feels like the road is fighting the car personally 😅

Other Hidden Costs

People forget:

* Car wash
* Parking
* Insurance
* Documents
* Traffic stress
* Unexpected repairs

Everything adds up quickly.

WHAT SURPRISED ME MOST

I finally understood why many people now:

* Use Bolt more
* Rent cars occasionally instead
* Or delay buying another vehicle entirely

Because owning a car in Nigeria today is almost like managing another responsibility on its own.

THEN I UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING

A lot of people complain about:

* Car rental prices
* Transport prices
* Driver costs

But after seeing what car owners spend regularly…

I started understanding the business side better.

Especially for operators managing multiple vehicles.

MY HONEST OPINION

At this point, reliability matters more than “forming”.

I’d rather use:

* A well-maintained car
* With peace of mind

Than force luxury and end up stranded somewhere.

LET’S DISCUSS

Car owners here:

What shocked you most after buying your car?

* Fuel?
* Maintenance?
* Nigerian roads?
* Spare parts?

Or do you think people are still exaggerating?

FINAL THOUGHT

Owning a car in Nigeria is no longer just about buying the vehicle…

The real challenge starts AFTER purchase.


#thread

I have owned a car before and it was like a liability not an asset. It was draining so much money out of me that I stopped paying my tithe because the car was like a devourer devouring my funds. So it didn't pain me at all when my mum sold it off without my permission. Now I am carless and happy because I don't have to pay all these car-related payments that the OP has aptly outlined.

I've been to at least 10 states plus FCT:
1. Edo (home state)
2. Delta
3. Lagos
4. Ekiti
5. Oyo
6. Kwara
7. Kogi
8. Ogun
9. Rivers
10. Plateau
✓ Abuja

My first ever flight was way back in 1989. All I remember was that the food given to me on the plane was different from the type of food I was used to.

Many years ago, I had a telepathic revelation that rapture was happening and it was happening principally through the Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners). And I think it involved being taken away to another planet (maybe heaven) in a spaceship.

Fast forward to the current day, Living Faith Church is building a new edifice called the 'Ark'. It recently dawned on me that the Ark could be the 'spaceship' that will rapture people to heaven like a modern-day Noah's Ark.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God Almighty. He is the 3rd person of the trinity. He was present at creation. He came upon various individuals in the old testament of the bible. In the new testament, He landed upon Jesus Christ in the form of a dove. After Jesus ascended, He came on the day of Pentecost and dwelt in the apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ. Today, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Wow! 48.18GB! I was expecting it to be higher. I knew TikTok would be the highest consumer of my data. It is well.

eddie7:
STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT TINUBU NOMINATES JOSEPH OLASUNKANMI TEGBE AS MINISTER OF POWER

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe as Minister of Power, subject to confirmation by the Senate.

The nomination has been transmitted to the Senate for screening and confirmation in accordance with the Constitution.

The nomination follows the resignation of the former Minister, Adebayo Adelabu, who stepped down from office to pursue elective office.

Mr Tegbe, from Oyo State, is a fiscal and economic reform expert with over 35 years of experience spanning the public and private sectors.

He is a former Senior Partner and Head of Advisory Services at KPMG Africa, where he led wide-ranging initiatives in fiscal policy reform, institutional transformation, and governance. He has also advised key government institutions and private sector organisations on strategic reforms, regulatory frameworks, and investment structuring.

He is at present the Director General and Global Liaison for the Nigeria-China Strategic Partnership (NCSP), where he is responsible for strengthening bilateral development cooperation between Nigeria and the People’s Republic of China.

The NCSP also coordinates engagements with public sector stakeholders to advance economic and social development in line with FOCAC objectives.

Mr Tegbe’s experience includes significant engagements within the power sector, particularly in regulatory and institutional reform involving agencies such as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET).

His nomination is expected to strengthen further ongoing efforts to reform the power sector, enhance grid stability, and attract sustainable investment in line with the Renewed Hope Agenda.

The President expects the Minister-Designate, upon confirmation, to bring his extensive expertise to bear to advance critical reforms and deliver improved outcomes for Nigerians in the power sector.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information & Strategy)
April 30, 2026

Wow! This is great. JT (as we fondly called him) was my boss when I was in KPMG. He is a very brilliant guy and a technocrat to the core. I think Tinubu is doing well by surrounding himself with technocrats like Taiwo Oyedele (from PWC) and JT (from KPMG).

Thank God for elevating Joseph Tegbe (JT) from glory to glory. He is definately representing. 👍🏽

OLAADEGBU:
Higher Everydɑy
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Keep Moving Forward

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Today's topic reminds me of an animated movie I watched many years ago about the catch phrase "Keep Moving Forward". It was about a brilliant young boy who somehow time-travelled to the future where he was a renowned scientist in the future. The young boy wondered how all the achievements in the future could be possible because he didn't currently measure up to it at all. But they kept telling him in the future that all he needs to do is to "keep moving forward", and he will arrive at the seemingly far-fetched future. The title of the movie is "Meet The Robinsons".

In the words of Mercy Chinwo in her song "We Move":
I'm going forward, forward ever
For the Lord has gone ahead of me,
To make every crooked way straight o ah ah ah;
It is forward ever, backward never o o o.

You are going forward, forward ever
For the Lord has gone ahead of you,
To make every crooked way straight o ah ah ah;
It is forward ever, backward never o o o.

1. Oil and Gas
2. Information Technology (IT)
3. Telecommunications
4. Consulting
5. Banking

I honestly don't know why more people are not complaining about the high cost of data and how it finishes so quickly.

Before they increased the data prices, I used to buy ₦3,500 15GB data that lasts for one whole month. But after they increased the data prices, the ₦3,500 7GB data that I buy, only lasts for one week. Infact, nowadays, that ₦3,500 7GB data only lasts for five days. This means that I am spending about ₦21,000 on data per month. It is quite overboard.

If only the regulators of the telecom industry could step in to sanitize the exorbitant prices of data for the sake of the people. NCC please do something. The cost of data is just too high.

I'm not really a fan of Nollywood movies so I don't watch them alot. But out of the relative few that I have watched, two of them stand out in my memory. They are:
1. Out of Bounds (with Richard Mofe Damijo); and
2. Igodo.

✓ Beans and Milo
✓ Rice and powdered milk
✓ Cabin biscuit and Okro soup
These combinations were all in my secondary school days in boarding house.

I honestly don't know why the Federal Government keeps borrowing. It's like a bad habit. And it keeps getting passed from administration to administration. I thought Buhari had a borrowing problem, but now that Tinubu is in power, I am disappointed that the borrowing continues. When will they learn that the borrower is servant to the lender. And borrowing is like a trap that can enslave one for a very long time.

Tinubu you are trying. Things are not as bad as they were three years ago. But you need to stop borrowing. The more you borrow, the more you dig the debt pit that we are already in.

(1 Corinthians 6:1-8 KJV) 1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? 2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? 4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. 5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? 6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

Yesuaontheearth:
Hello EVERYONE! I hope that you’re doing great EVERYONE! I just wanted to let you all know that, JESUS of Nazareth (YESUA) is on the EARTH already, Jireh! Excorsize your precious hearts now as you read this message, because, there’s even no time now! DO NOT BE FOOLED BY WHAT YOU HAVE CONSTISTENTLY BEEN READING IN THE ADULTERATED, the, SO CALLED, the ‘BIBLE’. YESUA,(JESUS) is not coming back again from the skies as you have been successfully misled by the Romans Empires; courtesy of the so called, the ‘Bible’. This is the very instrument that has been in the operations more than one thousand years ago; raking in the money, to fuel the entire EMPIRES. YESUA’S SECOND coming, is the same as HIS FIRST! Meaning, HE, born as a baby, grew up, becoming a grown man and has been going through the life here as everyone else. Since HE was born in 1973, fortunately and unfortunately, HE has been going through everything in this current life as everyone else. STAY BLESSED EVERYONE!

If Jesus comes to this world again by being born, He would have to be born by a virgin again. The prophecy of the virgin birth has already been fulfilled in Jesus' first coming. That is why His second coming is as a fully grown God-man.

Dtruthspeaker:
Uh oh!
What does it mean to be one with nature? And if it is what I think, then your answer is nullified by the fact that many today would claim one with nature with their knowledge of good and evil.

I think to be one with nature means:
1. you get food from your natural surroundings just like animals without having to sweat for it; and
2. females don't have to labour in pain before they give birth like is the case with animals.

In short, to be one with nature would simply mean no more experiencing of the curse God put on man and woman.

Dtruthspeaker:
Ok. That is an effect.

But, what does it mean to walk about naked and unashamed?

I think it means to be one with nature just like animals who live in balance with nature.

NDSMELODY:
I saw it in my dream that I set a bush on fire, the fire was so high that both dry and wet grasses get burnt, what is the meaning pls ?

Maybe God is warning you that an action of yours can lead you to hell fire. It is like the opposite of Moses' encounter with the burning bush that wasn't consumed. But yours was being consumed by the fire which represents God - the Consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:29).

I advise you to check your life to see if there is any thing that you are doing that may lead you to hell fire. There is a list of hell fire worthy actions in Matthew 23.

May God the Consuming fire have mercy on us all.

Dtruthspeaker:
Ahan, still no one with any ideas?

Nifpmod can you please take it to frontpage for contributions?

I think the answer is obvious: We would still be walking about naked and unashamed if Adam and Eve didn't eat of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

saintbillion:
This ur own dull oo

Thank you for this comment. I have changed it.

We haven't had electric power this year. And even when we had it last year, it was low current that doesn't carry fridge, TV, pumping machine, etc. It has been darkness throughout this year. It reminds me of the two times there was darkness in the bible:
1. The plague of darkness before the final plague of the death of the first-born in the book of Exodus; and
2. The darkness in the land when Jesus Christ was crucified.

I don't know which of the above mentioned darkness we are currently experiencing in Nigeria, particularly Edo State. May God have mercy and deliver us from the power of darkness into His marvellous light in Jesus' name. Amen.

Preciousgirl:
2 Corinthians 3:5-6
[5] Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
[6] who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

What is this new covenant?

Read the passage of scripture below to get the answer to your question:

[[Hebrews 8:7-13 KJV]] 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

You can also read Hebrews chapter 9 and 10 for further clarity about the new covenant.

TenQ:
Mat 23:8-10:
"But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all you are brothers. And call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be you called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ."

Thank you for this scripture. I thought I was the only one who had that scripture in mind concerning the topic of this thread. Paul's writings okays having spiritual fathers, but Jesus frowns against it in Matthew 23. When there are contradictions like that in the bible, I choose to go with the words of Jesus, not Paul.

Here they are. This thread has made me think of changing it back to my previous pictures for the home and lock screen.

@topic

1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV): "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

Proverbs 28:6 (NIV): "Better the poor whose walk is blameless than the rich whose ways are perverse."

Proverbs 19:22 (NIV): "...better to be poor than a liar."

Proverbs 15:16 (GNT): "Better to be poor and fear the Lord than to be rich and in trouble."

Ecclesiastes 4:13 (NIV): "Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king..."

My ATM card is expiring next month so I went to the bank today to get a new one at a GTB branch on campus (UNIBEN). The last time I replaced my expiring ATM card was 4 years ago. I had to queue and wait a long time before I was attended to. So I was expecting that I would have to queue and wait for a long time again before I was attended to.

My first delight at the GTB branch was that there was practically no queue. When I then approached the GTB staff at the Customer Inquiry Desk, I told her that I want a new ATM card. She replied and said there is a machine that will do that outside where the ATMs are. So I went there and saw the machine after being directed by the security staff on ground. I tapped on the screen of the machine to awaken it and it asked for my account number. Initially it kept saying "unable to identify customer", but the security guard reassured me to keep trying that it is a network issue. So I tried again and it worked. All it required again was my thumb print on the thumb print scanner. I linked my other account to the card and that was it. It dispensed my new ATM card just like that. No queue, no waiting to be attended to by a staff member.

I never knew ATM cards could be dispensed like that by self-service. I am really impressed with GTB's advancement and the use of technology to make things easier for their customers. Well done GTB.

P.S. Is it only GTB that now uses a self-service ATM card dispensing machine, or is it other banks too? I don't know. I rarely go to banks nowadays because POS has taken over.

ProphEkene:
Many people pray, in church at home. Some have given up praying and this is the question in the mind of many people. So am asking has prayers ever worked for you. If yes share ur experiences. You may touch a live today

Prayers has worked for me countless times without number. Like when I prayed for admission and I got it; I prayed for water supply and I got it; I prayed for a successful inter-state journey and I got it; I prayed for healing and I got it. I can go on and on about the countless times God has answered my prayers.

However, there have also been times when I prayed for something and I didn't get it. Experience has taught me that the will of God is very important in getting answers to prayers. I have learnt that the prayers I pray that are not in line with the will of God don't get answered. No matter how big your faith is, if what you are praying for is not the will of God, it won't get answered.

Also, God's timing is part of it. If what you are praying for is not God's time yet, it won't be answered until the appointed time set by God.

Bottom line is that prayer works for the children of God but it has to be according to His will and His timing.

SCRIPTURE REFERENCE:
[[1 John 5:14-15 KJV]] 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

[[Isaiah 49:8 KJV]] Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

I know a boy called "It is well".

maxinvile:
Good day everyone,
Please, I sincerely need your help. I am currently going through a challenging period in my life and I strongly feel the need for spiritual guidance and intervention.
I humbly ask if anyone here knows a genuine and trustworthy prophet or man of God in Lagos whom I can visit for prayers and counsel. This request is coming from a deep place in my heart, and I would truly appreciate any sincere recommendation.
Please, I am not looking for anything misleading—just someone real who can offer spiritual help.
Thank you all in advance for your kindness and support. God bless you.

I recommend you see Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church (a.k.a. Winners). He is a real man of God. The only snag is that he is very busy so getting an appointment with him may be very difficult. That's why he usually refers people to read his books on the particular area of concern. e.g. If you have financial challenges, there are books authored by Bishop David Oyedepo that address financial challenges. His books give light, and that light is what you need to bring you out of any darkness. Knowledge is light!