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This really nailed it...whaooo...so hilarious ![]() Up GMB 2015... |
Who are these shameless entities? I blame una...name person wey put am for front page I blame. |
bishop0608:The write up is an excerpt from a piece. For the purpose of digest, i have modified the word 'monster' to 'false'. Hope this helps. |
I guess people will find it hard to comment because their pastors probably portray some of these features...Who are they to judge? Isn't that the excuse these days? |
False pastors have little regard for the sheep (or the Chief Shepherd for that matter). Instead, their first priority is self, masked by other agendas. Such pastors may use pressure tactics, political maneuvering, and/or persuasive speech in order to manipulate a congregation into acting on their behalf. When they don't get their way, false pastors usually 1) move on to another church, 2) cause a stir in their current church and/or 3) blame the congregation for not following their lead. Simply put, monster pastors are building their own kingdom rather than Christ's kingdom. As a general rule, monster pastors: 1. Are always right and never wrong. 2. Cannot accept criticism without becoming defensive. 3. Are not willing to share the pulpit. 4. Do not support other ministries. 5. Overly use the personal pronoun, "I." 6. Resist accountability. 7. Feels threatened by former pastors. 8. Surround themselves with "yes men" rather than edifying leaders. 9. Do not entrust ministry to other leaders. 10. Undermine programs that they cannot control. 11. Insist that everything in the church run through them. Excerpt from http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/48481-11-signs-of-a-monster-pastor. Go to link to read more. |
missjenna:Hey you are wrong...can anyone here tell what he or she did when six months old. A six month old baby knows nothing. Enjoy ya sex joooor. It's just your mind playing tricks on you. |
Louislewis:Are you ill?
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tit:You have successfully demonstrated to the whole world how unintelligent you are. You are just like the dumb-headed crew interviewed in the video. If after watching the video this is all you could come up with, then I have no other choice but to shake my head for your miserable life. |
I have been saying it from time immemorial, oxygen mask will not be enough to keep some people alive by the time GMB wins in March. Don't be surprised if after announcement of GMB as the winner, you start seeing ambulances zooming past beside you carrying the likes of FFK, Fayose, Abati, Okupe etc Let us start rejoicing...change is enroute Aso rock. GMB on the way... |
OLUJOSHINS:Correct |
You are definitely on your own... |
eagleeye2:How does this have to do with the topic? |
My attention has been drawn this morning to an article entitled: “Jonathan Replies Soludo over “missing N30 trillion” claim”— extracting from Mr. President’s interview as published by Thisday newspaper. ThisDay quoted Mr. President as saying that “Soludo said that under Ngozi’s watch they stole N30 trillion” but that since the sum of the federal budget over the last four years was less than N30 trillion, such an amount could not have been “stolen”. According to the President, “it is all political”. I had earlier stated that I would not make further comments on the issues until probably after the elections but since Mr. President has decided to join the fray, I am constrained to make a further brief clarification. For me, President Jonathan is a gentleman and a friend but I have a fundamental disagreement on his management of the economy. On the issues at stake, I believe that the pressures of office and the hectic electioneering campaigns have not allowed him time to read my articles or that his staff have not explained the contents to him hence he totally missed the point in his comments. For the avoidance of doubt, let me clarify as follows: 1. In my article entitled “Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Missing Trillions”, I presented some rough calculations covering: oil theft, money that ought to accrue to stock of foreign reserves, unbudgeted oil subsidy payments, customs duty waivers, leakages through the self-financing government parastatals, unremitted sums by NNPC, etc. I concluded that section of my article by noting that: “I have a long list but let me wait for now. I do not want to talk about other ‘black pots’ that impinge on national security. My estimate, Madam, is that probably more than N30 trillion has either been stolen or lost or unaccounted for or simply mismanaged under your watchful eyes in the past four years”. 2. It is evident that the monies I referred to are “off-budget”. These are monies that did not make it to the budget. I find it funny that the Government deliberately avoided the issues raised above but instead has sought to divert attention by focusing on the “federal budget”. Let me state for the record that I believe that the amount of resources that are either stolen from the economy or out-rightly mismanaged by government far exceeds the federal budget per annum. Ours is about a N100 trillion economy, and I will be shocked if the government pretends that it does not know that currently about 10% of the GDP falls into a ‘black hole’ on annual basis. We have not added figures based on counterfactual analysis such as the cost to the aggregate economy of bad or misguided economic policy. For example, in today’s Thisday newspaper, a headline news reports that “Aliko Dangote, Africa’s Richest Man, Loses $7.8 Billion as Naira, Stocks Plunge” while reporting that “In dollar terms, the devaluation has knocked more than $40 billion off the value of Nigeria’s economy”. Of course, most people predicted that oil prices would soon fall but we were caught unprepared, and today, the parallel market exchange rate is N225 to the dollar. Thus, the kind of analysis in today’s Thisday is just one little example of the kind of collateral damages–‘costs’ or ‘losses’– that mismanagement foists on the system. To repeat, my article did not focus on the federal budget: the mismanagement of the consumption budget and its unprecedented debt accumulation (with low value-for-money expenditures) are entirely different matters. 3. What I found particularly disconcerting as a Nigerian from the comments I read is the fixation to validation from the World Bank. According to Mr. President, “we asked the Minister how her colleagues at the World Bank saw the accusation”. I shook my head in disbelief. It is instructive that no one asked what Nigerians thought or ‘how Nigerians saw it’ but rather what was important to government was the impression of the World Bank. If this is the mind-set of our leaders, then ordinary citizens have real cause to worry. Well, I have read several editorial comments of Nigerian media and they do not agree with the ‘impression’ of the World Bank official. I read a similar comment by a high government official stating that World Bank officials and CNN had told them that government was doing well and therefore who else could question them. But neither the World Bank nor CNN conducts comprehensive independent surveys on the economy— they comment based on the data they are given— and their subjective “opinions” cannot substitute for hard facts. The World Bank is not a statistical agency. I can provide a long list of countries that World Bank reports praised as ‘star performers’ and they slumped into deep crisis almost immediately after. Check out the World Bank and IMF reports on the US and other countries’ economies shortly before the unprecedented global financial and economic crisis in fifty years (the Great Recession of 2008/09). Actually for many countries once they start getting such ‘praises’, then perceptive officials begin to worry. Nigeria is probably the only country where its government officials quote the World Bank while ignoring data from its own statistical agency! A serious concern is that while government relies on external validation (opinion) as ‘proof’ of its performance, it is selective in the process—accepting the positive ones and disparaging the negative ones. Our recent exchanges illustrate the point. In my first article (26th January): “Buhari Vs Jonathan: Beyond the Elections”, I argued that “the economy seems to be on auto pilot, with confusion as to who is in charge, and government largely as a constraint. There are no big ideas, and it is difficult to see where economic policy is headed to. My thesis is that the Nigerian economy, if properly managed, should have been growing at an annual rate of about 12% given the oil boom, and poverty and unemployment should have fallen dramatically over the last five years”. No one has credibly challenged the above, except what the Financial Times of London described as a “furious response by the Minister”. But, the influential Economist Magazine of London and New York Times agreed with us. According to the Economist editorial (7th February, 2015): “… as Africa’s biggest economy stages its most important election since the restoration of civilian rule in 1999, and perhaps since the civil war four decades ago, Nigerians must pick between the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, who has proved an utter failure, and the opposition leader, Muhammadu Buhari…. The single bright spot of his rule has been Nigeria’s economy, one of the world’s fastest-growing. Yet that is largely despite the government rather than because of it, and falling oil prices will temper the boom. The prosperity has not been broadly shared: under Mr Jonathan poverty has increased. Nigerians typically die eight years younger than their poorer neighbours in nearby Ghana”. I gave the Government an “F” grade on economic management, and the Economist described its performance as “utter failure”. The Economist also basically agreed with me that the re-basing of the economy and its observed ‘growth’ have nothing to do with government policy. Again, government has not credibly challenged the above or is the Economist’s view also ‘all political ’? Government simply waved it off. My point is that if Government has to rely on the “impressions” of external bodies, then it should be consistent and comprehensive. 4. In conclusion, let me re-state that I firmly stand by my earlier statements. These are weighty statements which I weighed carefully before issuing. I appreciate that this is an election time and so attempts would be made to trivialize, or either play politics with, or divert attention from, them. In a serious society, we should have had a good debate on these matters as they could provide some of the building blocks in trying to pick the pieces after the elections. Part of our citizen duty in a democracy is to raise such issues and demand for answers. In the meantime, I grant that our leaders are busy with campaigns but these issues won’t go away until we have a transparent resolution. Be assured that after the elections, we will be back with even more questions! http://blog.avacubes.com/president-jonathan-missed-the-point-on-missing-n30trn-by-charles-soludo/ This is beginning to get interesting...
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tatosh:I tire ooo. Na wetin GEJ turn dis country to be dat... |
that's a slammer... |
manutdadex:I think your exposure needs to be called into question if going by your comment, you are suggesting this is how it should be. |
southsouthman:Change from hopelessness to life... Quiz me or not, this change is imminent...GMB 2015 |
Shiifi:Welcome on board...GMB 2015 |
You do have every right to confront him. But just expect him to say one of his friends brought his gf to his place and they were the ones that used the condoms... |
It is only in Nigeria that you will be charged for stealing and you will still move around with your own police escort. Seriously, this country is not just rotten on the surface but also from deep within...SMH |
Despite being prosecuted for graft an ex-Nigerian Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, appeared in the Lagos Federal High Court escorted by a contingent of weaponed policemen. In the past when he was a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) he made his trial appearances almost unaccompanied. Mr. Fani-Kayode now arrives the court grounds escorted by half a dozen weaponed policemen and State Security Services (SSS) officers. A defence witness Kola Olapoju during cross examination a defence witness that presidential spokesperson in 2006 requested for N1 million to “urgently” offset debts despite having over N8 million in his bank account. The decision maker of the Fani-Kayodes’ property said that he was instructed by the ex-minister to give the money for the cost of artisans who had renewed his belongings. “That wasn’t the first time the accused (Mr. Fani-Kayode) will be calling (on the phone) for money,” Mr. Olapoju, the first defence witness, said during cross examination, noting that the transaction was “unusual and exceptional.” “Most of the time monies were requested for projects or for relatives or other beneficiaries and those were to be disbursed directly. And the few instances where he had to use the money, I’d have to pay either into his account, give to a staff, or use as appropriately directed.” Mr. Olapoju added that in 2005, when ex-minister joined the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo, who was then a president, regular communications with him was “no longer as easy as it used to be.” According to him Mr. Fani-Kayode asked him to “urgently” organise finances from renter of their property to pay the artisans.The witness said he deposited the first portion of money – N1 million – on September 21, 2006, and the second payment – N1.1 million – was made eight days later. The second defence witness, Aderemi Ajidahun, told the court that Mr. Olapoju had arrived at the accused’s office with money for his boss. Mr. Ajidahun, who was Mr. Fani-Kayode’s Chief of Staff during the latter’s term of office, said they were childhood friends.On September 29, Mr. Ajidahun said he received another call from Mr. Olapoju informing him he was in their office with cash for the accused. “Again, the accused, and myself, was not in the office. I asked him to call Agbaje who assisted him the other time to go pay the money into the bank.” The judge adjourned the trial to March 26 for the defence’s third witness. The EFCC had firstly established a 47-count pleading sum of N230 million against Fani-Kayode, later cutting it down to 40 counts of N100 million. On Tuesday, February 24th, the judge ordered the EFCC to release the ex-minister’s international passport talken by the commission after an order by Justice Ramat Mohammed when the trial commenced in December 2008. The former minister is facing a two-count charge of money laundering before Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia. www.naij.com/391879-fani-kayode-appears-in-lagos-court.html
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notobs:Chaii...Nigeria don finish...all dis ones na school or beer parlor. Imagine Michael and Cecilia... |
Qmab:Hian...picture of your boyfriend or adonilivit... ![]() |
We need more people to share their experience on this. |
harbibi:I love this. |
I know babies do cry a lot especially when they are about to be injected. On seeing this picture, I feel surely there are some babies out there that tend to be tough. In this case, do you have a baby like this? Are you the one who squeezes face any time you take your child for injection rather than the child?
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Tranquill:Guy, we are not clamouring for a magician, we are asking for a change. No one says Buhari will turn Nigeria to Canada in even 10 years. What we are saying is that we cannot continue to keep pace with failure. We cannot continue to glorify underachievement. We cannot continue to use the public funds to buy shoes for GEJ. At least, his message was that he had no shoes. By now, he must have bought enough. Then let him go away and let other people buy shoes too... |
Qmab:Let me give you his number... |
Tranquill:I see. Laughable. And this is someone who said if he can't do anything within 4 years, there's nothing will be able to do again. It is just unfortunate that people keep indulging this useless government. Sit down and reflect. What has been the direct, ok let's say indirect, impact of this administration on the common Nigerian. Anyway, his underachievement is so clear to see. We will keep advocating for a change till we flush out the current fruitless dispensation. |
Sleekydee:I feel say na only me notice am...Ladies, speechless since 18 B.C. |
Tranquill:And how has he made it a priority? Where has this shown? Lies, lies, lies... |
kingofpool:Another mad man running unclad on NL... |
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