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Mowire:
Sorry Sir/Ma,
>:(
The above holds true only for you and Your fathers' house!!!!!

NONSENSE

(CNN) -- Christian Eshiett was a rambunctious pre-teen who spent a lot of time cavorting with his friends in southern Nigeria. He would skip school and run away from home for days, frustrating his grandfather, who oversaw the boy's care.
Children branded as witches protest on February 26, 2009, in the southern Nigerian city of Eket.

Children branded as witches protest on February 26, 2009, in the southern Nigerian city of Eket.

"I beat him severely with canes until they broke, yet he never shed a tear," said Eshiett Nelson Eshiett, 76. "One day, I took a broom to hit him and he started crying. Then I knew he was possessed by demons. , Nigerian witches are terrified of brooms."

From that day two years ago, Christian, now 14, was branded a witch. The abuse intensified.

"They would take my clothes off, tie me up and beat me," he told CNN in a telephone interview.

The teen is one of the so-called witch children in Eket, a city in oil-rich Akwa Ibom state of Nigeria.

They are blamed for causing illness, death and destruction, prompting some communities to put them through harrowing punishments to "cleanse" them of their supposed magical powers.

"Children accused of witchcraft are often incarcerated in churches for weeks on end and beaten, starved and tortured in order to extract a confession," said Gary Foxcroft, program director of Stepping Stones Nigeria, a nonprofit that helps alleged witch children in the region.

denony:
WE ARE OUT ALREADY
THIS IS TERRIBLE

SIASIA IS STILL THE MAN

jamace:
No evil will go unpunished, Ibori! Your time is running out faster than you know. Watch out.

KunleOshob:
@Allta
What do you think is man's true destiny? What is our purpose in existence and our role in the cosmos?

e4emma:
Guyz help me out,im in luv with a sis in my church and i wnt a serious relationship bt my problem is how to approach her because im wel respected in d church.i need heeelllllppppp

locator:
it written that in the last days there shall be false prophets and false teachers,they are only fulfulling d prophecy.it is we people that should pray for the spirit of discernment.

By Ifeanyi Ibeh

August 20, 2009 11:44PMT


Flying Eagles handler Samson Siasia is confident about his players' chances of passing any age verification test that may be used to ascertain the age of players at this year's FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Egypt. Even if it's the Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan.

The MRI scan, when applied on the bone, usually around the wrist area, can to a high degree of certainty work out the age of a player and is set to be used at the U-17 World Cup scheduled for Nigeria between October 24 and November 15, 2009.

World football's governing body, FIFA, has not come out to declare whether the procedure that has been carried out to a smaller extent on players at the last three U-17 World Cups will be used for the tournament in Egypt but Siasia is not in the least bothered as he has declared that every player who eventually makes it into the national side ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt will be within the stipulated age bracket.

Passport proof

"I have not heard whether anything like that will be performed on players in Egypt," said Siasia in an interview with NEXT Sports yesterday. "But I am not bothered because the players I have in my team all fall within the age bracket.

"The ages on their passports make all of them eligible for the World Cup and I have no reason to doubt that as I wasn't present when they were born.

"They all play for their clubs, in Nigeria and abroad, and their ages have never been questioned. A lot of them have also represented the country at international competitions and their records are with FIFA so we have no reason to be bothered."

Departure date

The Flying Eagles were earlier scheduled to leave for Spain yesterday but will now depart next week to finalise their preparations for the World Cup which gets underway on September 24 in Cairo.

While in Spain, Malaga to be precise, the Flying Eagles will play series of friendly matches with local club sides which will be used by the team's coaching crew in selecting the final list of players for the World Cup.

"Hopefully, we will depart for Spain on Tuesday or Wednesday to commence our final preparations for the World Cup," continued the former Super Eagles striker, who may use the opportunity of the team's trip to check on the Venezuelans who will also be training in Spain around the same period as the Flying Eagles.

The Flying Eagles are grouped along with Spain, Venezuela and Tahiti in the junior World Cup.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it will not accept the Fifa-approved MRI bone scans to determine the ages of players due to take part in the Under-17 World Cup.

In a move likely to raise more questions than it answers, the NFF president Sani Lulu rejected the use of MRI scans, saying they are "not in the rules and regulations of the tournament."

Lulu's comments come just weeks after the NFF dropped 15 players from their Under-17 squad after they failed the age-tests conducted.

Nigeria conducted MRI scans in a move seen as a pre-emptive strike at Fifa's requirement for all players to be age-tested during the tournament to be held in October in Nigeria.

But barely four weeks after the revelation, Sani Lulu has rejected criticism surrounding the tests, insisting he w ill not accept the MRI results.

"I've always maintained that I'll not use the MRI to disqualify my players because it's not in the rules and regulations of this tournament," Lulu told a local radio station in Lagos.

But his comments have irked Sports Minister Sani Ndanusa who has rejected calls to invite the parents of the national under-17 players to verify their sons' ages.

"We will not deviate from Fifa's requirement in terms of ascertaining players' true ages," a visibly angry Ndanusa told journalists in Abuja.

"The whole world has gone digital and we're following suit. We're no longer in the analogue era.

"Fifa wants MRI scans used and we're going to adhere to that, simple."

The spat between Lulu and Ndanusa has generated heated debate in Nigeria, with fans and the media calling for the sacking of top NFF officials.

Accusations of age cheating have blighted Nigeria's success at international age group tournaments in recent years.

The Golden Eaglets have won the Fifa Under-17 World Cup three times - 1985, 1993 and 2007.

Do you have any evidence for this? Or are you still operating based on hear say stories?

SATAN IS UNDER MY FEET
HE IS MY SLAVE FOREVER

PS: I don't know the man and I am not even a member of his Church.

Matthew 10:34 - "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword"

"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it

"I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13

"Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do: because I go unto the Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My name, that will I do" (John 14:13,14).

Secondly, I have seen, heard and read about individuals who thought they were doing GOD a favour by tongue lashing his ministers but I make bold to say that they were severely dealt with, but if you don't believe, well u can continue. Just know that God deals with HIS own servant by HIMSELF (that is if need be and offcourse after sufficient warnings), I am not a religious person neither am I a member of his church O!