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The 'wrong kind' of soldier-savior for 40 years? What are the odds?
So tired of people painting Buhari/Idiagbon in misty nostalgic colours, like they were the epitome of leadership. The guy treated an entire country with superior comtempt, like he was the stern principal in a school for village idiots. And they were just as ignorant about ruling a country as the next person.There's no successful military rule anywhere on the continent. The real heroes, the finest class of soldiers, real geniuses for combat, strong and brave and intelligent soldiers, perished in the Civil War. And these fine crop of officers were on BOTH sides of the divide. They knew what their duty was, and it had nothing to do with ruling a country. The army is PART of a government, not an independent entity, and they have as little right as any other part of government to ruling a country. Otherwise, give the staff at Power Holding Company guns and let them rule too. They have as much right if faceless soldiers do.

Lol Vesc. As if you know! I just adore wedding planning. Make una beg Madam G make she gree me plan her own with Bros.

You didn't like Notebook, Spikie? That's odd, The romance isn't overdone or cliche, and is always and sometiumes painfully believable. I love their bizarre reunion after she sees him and the house in the paper and impulsively drives over to see him. All the fluster and awkwardness and tenderness and throwing pride to the winds that's the hallmark of real romance. It didn't feel cheesy and Hollywoody. Good casting. I know the couple dated in real life.

I don't know if it's one of the greatest romances on celluloid though. For me that would forever and always be The English Patient. Only movie that made me cry my eyes out. Even Titanic didn't, with all its pathos and carefully melodramatic deaths, and poor gorgeous,noble,drowing DiCaprio.
Grand, sweeping, beautiful, terrible, all-consuming romance, that English Patient.
Bet you know all about that with Gollum, hey, Karma.

otokx:
I think ADEBAYO got it right on this one.

You mean ADEBAYOR, don't you?

skyranger:
i'll always stand on my ground about this statement, ONLY YOUNG ARMY OFFICERS, WITH NO LOYALTY TO RETIRED GENERALS CAN CLEAN OUT THE MESS IN NIGERIA & LAY OUR FOUNDATION TO GREATNESS.We are taking lessons from Ghana, the international community has chosen Ghana as a true democratically reference state ahead of other african states, Nigeria is not even considered one
But how short lived a memory we have, Ghana took a violent but historical part to self development which we have failed to acknowledge but we are very quick to say how well Ghana is doing.
Dambazua's actions could be clearly seen as that of someone trying to save his head from events of such comments. he is a General, we don't need generals to insight a coup, it would only end up in another messing politicking corrupt breed of power mongers, he won't even be aware till the gunz start blazing.

the young army officers has been induced financially and otherwise, they now get vehicles and other material benefits as soon as they leave the academy, all these were introduced by our thievery leaders just to make them turn a blind eye to their looting.

The foundations of great nations of this world were laid by it's army. the very strength of america was built by its armed forces, they fought external aggressions, paid with there lives just to build a better nation for its citizens. it happened in france (internally) as well.
now my opinion is this, if a country faces no external aggression but internally, its bunch of selected in-passionate leaders torments its populace with poverty and total neglect, the nozzle of the army should be pointed at the leaders face.

the armed forces owe its allegiance to the its populace or citizens not its leaders, all we need and should be pray for now is a set of graduating defense academy boys with a rational and right thinking mind to re-group and re-chart our course for self-development.

personally, i strongly would class any one who dares to openly call on the armed forces to intervene in the crisis the entire nation has been plunge into a nationalist, the entire nation has branded nigerians a failed state, its citizens are even considered as cowards,

i mean it is happening everywhere in the world, citizens putting up a defiance stand in the face of oppression, since nigerians are too happy to noticed that their children and generations to come have no future, we only hope that someone that can re-directs his or her arms from the citizens to its leaders.

he is a hero

my heart bleeds, for our inability to stand up against oppression, iran is not a better educated country compared to nigeria, i heard of a one million man march against PHCN on the 1st of Oct along mobolaji banks anthony way. i have been singing it to high heavens and telling all my concerned friends that i would participate, i hope the big revolution starts from from a trickle as this one

You're crazy with a capital K.
Soldiers are trained for crude combat, to fight and defend their country by air land or water. They are trained for nothing else. Would you take a 'young officer with no loyalty to a retired general' and place him at the head of a multinational company like, say, Chevron, or entrust him with the future of a Fortune 500 company? Of course not! He'll run it to the ground from sheer ignorance and imcompetence. How much more do you imagine something as complex as a huge country of one hundred and fifty million souls, with vast bureaucracies and intricate local and international laws and policies to fromulate, belong in the hands of such a group of soldiers? That's insane talk.
They are responsible for the country's horrible retrogression, after 40 years of intervening at crtitical moments in our history,turning everything upside down and running it into the ground. Their interference in politics is the worst thing that ever happened to this country by a long bleeding shot. So what if our politicians haven't reached the British or American standard in democracy yet? Did those two countries arrive at the present state of affairs in a decade, or only after a hundreds of years of their own teething and growing pains.   

As for that dimwitted Nwobodo who's as much a symptom of the country's malaise as anything else, his fat behind should sit in a cold hard cell for several months while he ponders his irresponsible and treasonable commenst. Virtually telling the army to munity and stage a coup! Another officer had to counter his stupid and sinister comments before the idea took hold in those impressionable officers minds. It is not the duty of the army to interfere in government and politics. It is not their field. They know nothing about it. Then horrific  history of this continent, in country after country, is a testament to that!

SUKKIE:
@poster

Dude, u are not alone o,especially that bloody transcorp.

Trans-frigging-corp, and some useless others. Tsheww.

But you no the bible, right? Which are the suitable and persistent parts? You're a Christian. You must know.

This Karma sef. It is when somebody is looking for her trouble that she will decide she wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Watching The Notebook and liking it much. Haven't seen James Marsden since wonderful Hairspray and the unconvincing romance with Katherine Heigi in 27 Dresses. Ryan Gosling is really great in his movie.

We all recognise modern churches are organisations and they take money to run effectively,as well as pay full-time ministers' salaries. However, giving is different from the baseless, exploitative, crassly ignorant, extortionate and false doctrine of Tithing being propagated in many churches. Not all pastors preach it to fleece their flock. Some believe in tithing sincerely, and are just as sincerely wrong.

Who is this RSA dimwit? You exchanged your brains for crap at the South African stock exchange? A movie portrays Nigerians in an awful light and we're supposed to do what, take drums and dance with joy on the streets?We all know the reach and power of movies. Given the negative image a handful of bad eggs have given Nigeria, it's irresponsible for any filmmaker to portray them as savages. What's that to do with SA producing Totsi? I saw that movie, and it was gorgeous. So? Is it District 9? Was it not the same Hollywood that made Schindler's List that made Meet Dave and Disaster Movie? If SA made Totsie, does that elevate every piece of irresponsible, thoughtless, xenophobic crap out of south africa to cinematic art? Your own racist, AIDS-ridden, infant-raping culture doesn't have its own problems? Comot here! Donkey's ass.     
UP NIGERIA!

We no hear o. So it's news. Post the baby's photo naw.

JeSoul:
Max . . . english translation please, my yoruba is very rusty  

Chai! Di thing hard to translate na. It's the traditional song sung at Yoruba weddings by the husband's family, demanding their bride from the bride's family. They promise there's water in their compound and she doesn't have to go to the stream to fetch water again. As you know, Smeagol likes streams and lakes, so there's water in his backyard true true and Karma doesn't have to go and fetch water.
Awwww. What a romantic pic-shuhhh.

lol no be una? The guy packs some serious heat tho. I like him and his movies.

Nne, see Smeagol’s pipu singing na!

E bawa gbe 'yawo wa
Anabi la 'beyin o
Omi n be lagbara wa
Karma o ro do mo o

Kenny_G:
As far as i can gather pastor Ighodalo is/was part of the RCCG, Pastor Adeboye is the head of the organisation, what happens within that organisation is no concern of Pastor Tunde Bakare (Latter Rain) who obviously has issues with RCCG anyway. I think he should just spend his energy and time building up his congregation instead of prying into other church affairs. His analogy that RCCG "whereas those with three wives are given front seats in the church.” is also fundamentally flawed because these people are not church workers or pastors, they are mere guests and important dignitaries for that matter and as such deserve to be treated as such i.e. sit in front/reserved areas. It is when these so called VIP's decide to accept the christian faith that the above doctrine applies to them.

Yeah. The guy seems to have some serious ‘beef’ with RCCG. One wonders why. The church has faults, grave ones, but they’re not as bad as other churches I could mention. But he has a right to comment on the issue. Virtually every church head has. It has implications for mainstream Naija Christianity, which is crude, paranoid and painfully ignorant in the main.

The thing is, Adeboye wields enormous power over millions of lives, people who trust him to lead them aright, and who base their lives on the decisions he makes. It’s a huge responsibility. And not just his church members but Naija Christians in the main, especially those who see the office of pastor as Deputy God, an attitude Naija pastors do nothing to discourage, in spite of the dangers inherent in such things. Adeboye’s pronouncements are taken as if God himself has spoken, and become something like law in his churches. The implications of this gross error, for millions of Christians, is enormous and disturbing. After all, to most, he is superhuman and infallible, and cannot possibly be in the wrong.

And yet, he is. The bible is perfectly clear on the issue. The man is not bound and is free to remarry.The fact that it took two years for him to declare the marriage 'wrong' tells you something’s fishy. Perhaps he didn’t expect it to generate this much controversy, but that’s rather short-sighted. The man got married in RCCG. Adeboye is always informed when any of his pastors is getting married, and his blessings are always sought. Since he was very close to this particular pastor, he’ll likely have attended the wedding. So what caused him to declare the marriage is wrong and the guy should have consigned himself to a lifetime of loneliness and childlessness because his unbelieving spouse deserted him ten years ago? His decision to sack the pastor, whose conduct is blameless, is ridiculous, disturbing and grossly unfair to the man concerned.

Naw. Baker's photo's on the other page. Even a blind man can see they look nothing alike. No he looks like your dearly beloved, Smeagol, from whose's embrace you detached yourself to type that post and then ran quickly back into his preciousssss arms.
Nna, accept Big Bros present na. Abi you're embarrassed because we're here? We approve of your romance dear!
Oya,to be serious now, what colour is our aso ebi? Make una talk quick naw before pickin enter photo o.

The man was an unbeliever. He married an unbeliever. He became a Christian. She couldn't stand his religion. She left him. She got married again.

1 Corinthians 7:12-15
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

The bible verses they want to hang the man on and condemn him to a life devoid of children and love, tells you he acted perfectly right. The guy wasn't bound since the unbelieving wife left him.
They are not even commandments, but Paul's opinion on the matter. he stated plainly that he speaks, and not the Lord. But trust Nigerians. Odi ni gbogbo nkan won.

JeSoul:
If worst comes to the worst Max and No2A can always lay hands on you and cast out whatever needs casting.

Lol!

Karma, Karma, Karma
Who calleth thine name in fair autumn's cold chill, brings thee gifts, and whispereth fair tales in thine shell-like ear? To whom hast thou given thine heart, and cannot bear separation from?Hear his sweet voice in the wind. He calls and thou runneth to him, like a panting gazelle in the everglades.

"Karmaaaaa
Karmaaaaa
My
Preciousssssssssssssss"

I remeber this guy as a Calvin Kelin model and in the Maddonna video. Freakin' hot. Love his acting, and how natural he is. The real deals don't fake 'em, like Nollywood is won't to do. Congrats o, baba ikoko.

But Kimora has turned him into an African man proper. See his face like Baba Suwe.

tpia.:
I dont see why this is being blown out of proportion anyway, unless people want to make it an issue and fight for their right to get divorced.
[b]already someone was talking about some marriages not being validated by God- whatever that's supposed to mean.
Soon now we'll hear stories of people who say they married live cow, cat, mammy water and snake, and need to get divorced because they were bewitched into marriage.T[/b]hey're never bewitched into green card marriage- its only in the unions involving someone who understands their primordial belief that humans can turn to animals and mermaids, that they realize they were gobsmacked by sex.

LOL!
I almost expired laughing in one section,only to come and see this one again. That's a point right there. But it isn't so much about divorce as about a man who was married to a non-Christian who left him for someone else and is now married. His church is applying the verse about two Christians separating,instead of the one that says If you're married to a non-christian and he or she chooses to leave, you are free to remarry. You are not bound in such a case. That's the problem with legalism.The letter of the law kills but the spirit gives life. They will not face their out-of-control ashawo pastors and deal with the real issues making nonsense out of Nigerian Christianity. It's to punish a man whose unbelieving wife left him because he got religion,and who stayed single for a decade before marrying again. Meanwhile the 'genuine' pastors in their fold are going through choristers like a harmattan fire. One of the reasons I left that church in disgust when I attended it briefly, years ago.

What were they looking at for two good years? Didn't the wedding take place in the church?Didn't those who expel him and his fellow pastors attend the wedding? What suddenly changed and made his marriage illegal? Politics ehn.

Thank you jare, my Norbit-lovin' JS.

ThiefOfHearts:
Did I tell you to be tasteless
Not just with movies but with men too
Go sit down jo. Jealousy is worrying you

I know you don't intend to but you're adding to my hilarity here and my sides are aching enough as it is!
Make una no kill persin ah beg.

TOH and JS, get a room and stop throwing my stomach out of whack.

spikedcylinder:
Ah! I have looked forward to it too long to watch on a PC. I will wait patiently.
Thunder will fire Quentin if it disappoints though.

ROTFLMAO!!!
I'm weak with laughter I dey comot NL abeg

olabowale:
@Mad Max: long time before the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979, no one heard of it, except they are Asiatic, Persians, Arians, Muslims and Politicians. I am sure, in Nigeria, Afghanistan is not a word or country that was known like the way Ghana and Ghanaians were familiar words.
I remembered that Nelson Madela, fresh from Robin Island jail, in 1990 said to Ted Koppel of Nightline about the on going rift within ANC that it is not rigt to wash your dirty linen in the open! While the muslims do talk about these things, we sometimes get ashamed about evils performed by muslims. So we talk about it, among ourselves as a way to admonish one another. Yet we denounce the evils as appropriate in the public, without the need to overkill or alienate anyone. For example, last night, my wife and I were talking about some Alhajis in Northern Nigeria who are tagged by prostitutes as doing evil to them after having sex with them. That was in addition to our Boko Haram and other discussions. Yet earlier on my young friend from Minna heading there from NYC for Ramadan Id, InshaAllah, spoke about Boko Haram, and even theft, and other ills. We hated all these things and we are watching one another against each evil.I will not satisfy you by shaming everyone in Islam, just becase of the evil deeds of handful of evildoers.

You are watching one another how? It says nothing about the FACT that the moslem world keeps mum in the face of the evil perpetrated in its name. Surely theirs is the most important voice, the one other moslems will likely listen to. But while they claim they hate evil they do nothing to stop it. They're silent. In the face of evil, silence is consent. They have absolutely no excuse and defending that kind of shameful conduct is a vain exercise. It is wrong for muslims to impose such evil and barbarity on others, especially women, and the muslim world is silent. Admit that, and that might be a small step ahead in doing something about it.

Shame Islam because of a handful of moslems? A handful? Wickedness and horrible losses of precious lives rampages in the name of Islam from USA to India to Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia to our backyard in Nigeria, where ignorant barbaric throwbacks to the stone age kill in the name of Islam. I wouldn't call that a handful. Islam is the new face of global terror; haven't you heard?

They reject 'Western Education' and yet much of western scholarship is built upon the foundations laid by Islamic scholars in centuries past. Moslem scholars could not be beaten in physics and astronomy and mathematics. They were genius poets and philosophers. I mentioned this somewhere before; that the greatest thinker in the entire world in the 13th century was an Arab Moslem. There is no such thing as western education. There is only knowledge and it has no country and no master. Islam keeps retrogressing. The state of Islam now is far worse than when it began. For centuries they were the epitome of the grace and tolerance Christianity lacked in the dark ages. Had I been born in the 11th century I would choose Islam. But what thinking person chooses Islam now? Most Moslems were born into Moslem households and indoctrinated. Choice had nothing to do with it because they've no acquaintance with, and do not learn from, other religions. That's poverty of the highest order. They're a disgrace and a shame to all the genuine Moslems in centuries past who knew what true scholarship and freedom was. Shame! Shame!Shnme!

I mean this as nicely as it is possible to mean such a thing, but you really are terribly ignorant. Jewish laws and customs have nothing to do with gentiles and is not part of our inheritance. The very verses you flourish has been used to show you tithing is irrelevant to us, is part of Jewish law and has been cancelled by christ. Romans, I think, has much to say about that.

olabowale:
@Horus and Mad Max, etc: Afghanistan, indeed any country claiming to be a muslim country, but doing wat is contrary to Quran and Sunnah is just lying. Islam is not by name. It is by deeds; Obedience to Allah through the example of His messenger/Prophet Muhammad (AS)! Islam does not allow illegal sex. Rape outside or within the marriage, is wrong, illegal and unaccepted because it is unconsentual!

And yet Afganistan hides behind your Quoran to do evil. All the voices telling them what they're doing is wrong are secular and non-Islamic; Why is it so easy for you all to pontificate on how un-Islamic something is in private, but keep mum where it counts: in the face of those wicked people? Which Islamic, er the true Islamic countries, have condemned what's happening in Afghanistan? Where are the true muslim protesters?

Legalise rape? A girl may be raped and be paid for it? Starvation if you don't give in to sex? These Arab moslems! Mad people and their mad religion. No other religion on earth revels so shamelessly in evil. Bleeding nuisance. They and their obssession with women and sex. An obssession they carry to the silly, not even terribly imaginative paradise their Mohammed concocted for them. 70 perpertually deflowered and reflowered vaginas for eternity. And the dolts believe it and kill and die for it. And those ones who say they're for peace won't open their stupid mouths and condemn what their religious kin are doing. Clinically insane lot.

olusolami:
we should not pretend that we do not ave sex. some do not like to say thigs like tis openely but we are matured here and we know what is at stake. when we do not discuss these things, that is when a lot of young muslims get lured away to christianity and eventaully to condemnation. I want people with indept knowledge to shed light on the righful ways that true muslims should go when it comes to sex in marriages and relationsips.

You miss road to Muslim section,abi?

To write review don become wahala.See her orphan-lovin' behind.

All right. Josh is handsome. Baker's beautiful. And Vesc is getting gayer by the second.

Oh hush. We no go hear word again with this freakin Orphan? Provide one already if you're so keen. Everyone who's going to see it has seen it.
Saw someone in the Celebrities section with a serious crush on Bobby Deol. They have been saying it for a long time but it is now I believe: The world is truly coming to an end.

Some actioners and light fare

Fight Club
Terminator 1
The Matrix (1)
When Harry Met Sally

@JS
U no go comot ya cool sunglasses go rectify ya eye, abi? Baker is 40. Josh is a baby. Weeeen weeeen weeeen.Wait till he's 40 and then compare.

Vesc, whatcha gonna do? Better make your peace with AC-DC!
You were scared in The Sixth Sense? Which were the scariest parts?Where the woman wheeled her son in the cart while they went shopping? Where Willis did his coin trick? Where his wife was hugging a guy and a stone smashed into the windows?^*gasp* Do tell!

JeSoul:
I'm with you on Omen though, every one who's ever seen it has left traumatized for life.

I totally second that! I am a survivor of that holocaust!

Di whole thing get as e be. This guy seems to have a personal grouse against RCCG. They're not the only church with funny feathers na. Still, he makes a point: Traditional rulers and notables with many wives are given preferential treatment, whereas a church is called to be no respecter of persons.Make dem gree di guy marry jare. He's not at fault and his marriage is scripturally sound.

Christ is in virtually every major religion. To my surprise, there's stuff him in some of the secret lore of Tibetan Buddhism, with which I'm currently fascinated. You can learn something from other religions.Have never heard of this 'Ela' teaching of yours,though. Doesn't seem likely; stretching the fabric a litle too far,aren't we?

I did go through the posts from the beginning, and everything Chuckwudi said was right on the money. There ws little to add. You go on about laws and ordinances, distinctions no one in the New Testament,wherein our faith lies, has bothered to make. Even in the NT many issues were about the concerns of new Christian Jews,who had previously known nothing except the law:Should they eat certain foods,should they continue to practice the law,etc. They initially saw Christ and the new faith as Jewish property, and lof of the dialogues were between Jews and other Jews. But in vision, God showed Peter animals that Jews considered 'unclean' like they do gentiles, and the commandment, Kill and Eat. He quickly understood that salvation is freely offered to Gentiles too. Tithing is part of Jewish Law, and you saw the scripture where Christ himself called it so. But perhaps you know more than the Jewish Messiah what constitutes the Law in his own times and culture. And it has been plainly stated in the NT that Christ has abolished the law, so Jews were free to disregard it under faith in Christ. As a gentile, theMosaic laws are none of our concern. We were never under the law, and thinking so doesn't make it so. It's a self-evident fact: the law was given to the Jews. We are not Jews.

Even the famous Malachi 3:10 only needs to be read in full before you realise no one has a right to base tithing on that, and the verse alone was excised and taken out of context. The NT makes no bones about how we are to live and what we are to do and what we are to abstain from. This is good, this is sin, this is beneficial. If tithing brings financial prosperity, I'm certain exactly that would have been taught by Christ, the author of our faith. But no such teaching exists.