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PoliticsRe: Herdsmen: FG Opens Radio Station - Femi Fani-Kayode Kicks by MaKenz: 3:58pm On May 23, 2019
Debaiz:
So the FG of a multicultural and multi ethnic country like nigeria will now go on air to order a certain sect of people to start killing others?


Haaaa nigeria is in trouble. Does that make sense to you?
When it matters you know if it makes sense or not
PoliticsRe: Herdsmen: FG Opens Radio Station - Femi Fani-Kayode Kicks by MaKenz: 3:37pm On May 23, 2019
With the fragile state of security in the country, one would not fail to ask if this is not a medium to galvanize all Fulanis to carry out calculated plundering and pillaging of host communities. My thought though, what do i know.
PoliticsRe: I’m Glad Senate Didn’t Confirm Me As Chairman Of Anti-graft Agency, Says Magu by MaKenz: 6:58am On Dec 14, 2018
Like father like son...
PoliticsRe: FG Can’t Fund Budget 2018 Unless Assets Are Sold, Says Ministers by MaKenz: 12:57pm On Oct 28, 2018
Government of jokers, by jokers and for themselves.
Christianity EtcRe: Why Do Most Nigerian Hotels Have Only Bibles In The Rooms? by MaKenz: 2:52pm On Oct 21, 2018
Because Bible is an "Open Source" anybody can access it...
PoliticsRe: Atiku Replies Buhari Organisation, Says President’s Camp Now Confused by MaKenz: 4:25pm On Oct 08, 2018
This is called upper cut left, right and centre. It is all over
EducationRe: ASUU Rejects Proposed Hiking Of University Fees to about N500,000k by MaKenz: 2:03pm On Sep 29, 2018
"What is the dividend after paying as much as N500k and no work after graduation?" Them for tell us to start selling tomatoes or crayfish instead of wasting the money for school and ones status is not better off. GOD go punish devil and his cohort.
PoliticsRe: APC To Witness Another Round Of Defection; Meetings To Hold Abroad by MaKenz: 9:58pm On Jul 29, 2018
By the time this tsunami of defection that has hit APC is completed PMB may be standing alone.
PoliticsRe: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala' Twitter Appointment: Reno Omokri Replies El-Rufai's Tweet by MaKenz: 1:51pm On Jul 20, 2018
The failure in El rufai is like a bright morning star
PoliticsRe: 'Nigerians Have More Electricity Than They Can Consume' - Garba Shehu by MaKenz: 6:06pm On Jul 03, 2018
This is nothing short of hate speech and he should be prosecuted for misleading 180 million Nigerian.
PoliticsRe: Why Jonathan Is Responsible For Dividing Nigeria Not Buhari - Keyamo by MaKenz: 11:20am On Apr 21, 2018
Since we play politics with every issue, Keyamo may Fulani herdsmen visit u and ur family
HealthRe: The Malnourished Somalian Girl Is Now A Premedical Student (Photos) by MaKenz: 8:48am On Apr 04, 2018
The tales of two continent
PoliticsRe: Garba Hamman Julde Stoned In Taraba by MaKenz: 5:48pm On Apr 01, 2018
Good for him
PoliticsRe: "Buhari Has Spent N1bn On Ekwueme So Far" — Ngige by MaKenz: 3:33pm On Jan 29, 2018
Quick to tell us what was expended on late Ekwueme but the President medical vacation is shrouded in secrecy. We are watching... shocked shocked shocked
PoliticsRe: Osinbajo: NNPC — Not FG — Bearing Cost Of Subsidy by MaKenz: 10:37am On Dec 27, 2017
APC half finished us ni... using Pst. Osi as image maker i tire oh
PoliticsRe: BBC Report On "Imo State Commissioner Of Happiness- Photo by MaKenz: 9:16pm On Dec 05, 2017
[quote author=Nwades post=63012749]I am a proud Imolite and Rocha's is a working Governor, today owerri is among the most beautiful state capital I. Nigeria, imolites are happy people, the installment of a commissioner oh happiness is highly welcomed, little minds will not understand now but will copy later. Haters go and die[Oh death! where is thy clutch]
BusinessRe: Nigeria’s Manufacturing Sector Remains Steady by MaKenz: 8:08am On Nov 02, 2017
2019... Gbagam! Gbagam! Gbagam!
PoliticsRe: Uniformed Men Led Us To Be Killed By Fulani Herdsmen - Plateau Attack Survivor by MaKenz: 2:20pm On Oct 17, 2017
“President Buhari believes that this madness has gone too far. He has instructed the military and the Police to not only bring the violence to an instant end, but to draw up a plan to ensure that there are no further attacks and reprisal attacks by one group against the other.
What about the perpetrators of this dastardly act huh We are watching.
Nairaland GeneralRe: Pictures Of A Big Python That Was Killed In Our Compound by MaKenz: 10:21am On Oct 17, 2017
Hmmmmm! snakepox don show
PoliticsRe: Who's The Worst Head Of State In Nigerian History? by MaKenz: 12:18pm On Oct 05, 2017
Buhari "Most worstess" pardon my grammer...
Car TalkRe: Between Lexus 330 And Acura MDX 2008 Which Is Reliable by MaKenz(op): 11:03am On Sep 22, 2017
Car TalkBetween Lexus 330 And Acura MDX 2008 Which Is Reliable by MaKenz(op): 8:56am On Sep 22, 2017
Please I need a good advice, I want to acquire one of these SUVs Lexus 330 or Acura MDX of the same year 2008. I am considering availability of parts, easy maintenance (Nigerian Mechanics), rugged Engine and above all, pocket friendly.
CelebritiesRe: Photo Of Eniola Badmus And Tiwa Savage by MaKenz: 10:00am On Sep 20, 2017
Word and Opposite shocked shocked shocked
PoliticsRe: Army Did Not Declare IPOB Terrorist Organisation- Buratai by MaKenz: 9:32am On Sep 19, 2017
bedspread:
Buru are u confused....huh
Isn't it u guys and NPF that hv been giving reasons why they were termed terroists??

Seems the kingdom is in confusion....

Watch out for Lai Mohammed to Deny also.... coming soon
Buruku is confuse... grin grin grin
CelebritiesRe: Ruggedman Writes Open Letter To The FG Over Plan To Stop Music Production Abroad by MaKenz: 12:10pm On Jul 19, 2017
APC Govt of Propaganda
Led by Propagandist
Followed by Proper fools
PoliticsRe: Igbos Should Stop Complaining, They Didn’t Invest In Buhari’s Campaign – Ngige by MaKenz: 4:28pm On May 25, 2017
It worries me when people that know better but rather because of crumbs choose to twist the tenet and intent of democracy. Democracy is not about who vote for who but who emerges to champion the very essence of democracy. Nigeria is where she is today because of undemocratic utterances of the so-called leaders who give democracy a different meaning.
PoliticsRe: Fayose Gives Ekiti Beer Sellers N10m Loan (Photos) by MaKenz: 5:17pm On Apr 21, 2017
abayomi23:
shame on ekiti people . ambode is busy building bridges and massive infrastructure in lagos, ambode also funded lagos state employment trust fund with 25 billion naira annually and fayose is busy distributing poverty to ekiti people. their is God ooooooo.
What shall it profit a common man after building massive infrastructure and yet no food in his stomach... undecided undecided undecided
Christianity EtcThe Law On Tithes In The Light Of God's Concern For The Poor By Rev. Fr Okite by MaKenz(op): 11:58am On Apr 02, 2017
I call on all priests and ministers of the Gospel to rethink the meaning of our life and vocation as priests and ministers. Each person should ask himself why he chose to become a priest or a Gospel minister. What does GOD expect of me as a priest? The priest is alter Christus, another Christ. What this means is that people who encounter me should be able to see the touching presence of CHRIST in and through me. They should be able to feel CHRIST's love and compassion, his care and concern. My words should reveal and reflect CHRIST's message of hope and salvation. During our retreat, I told the retreatants the story of a young priest (and this is a true story) who, intending to bamboozle his audience with high sounding theological terms, kept repeating to them "As a priest, I am altar Christi." And I said to him what do you mean by that? He replied, you know nah, it means another CHRIST. I corrected him. He intended to say "alter Christus". But I added, how I wish you meant the one you said, "altar Christi" because that is also a grammatically possible expression in Latin, and it means "altar of CHRIST". You see being a priest involves sacrifice. The priest should be ready to become the altar upon which the sacrifice of the Christian community will be offered. He should be ready to bear the sacrifice upon himself.
But what we find is a situation where the priest thinks he is there to enjoy life. The priest craves a life of affluence and excessive wealth.
The priest should take a look at the inaugural message of CHRIST in Luke 4,16-30 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because HE has anointed me. HE has sent me to bring good news to the poor. .." The priest who models himself after CHRIST cannot but take seriously this mission to the poor. But what we find in the Church today is an overall exploitation of the poor masses. Some parish priests cannot begin a Sunday mass and end it without calling for two or more extra collections outside the regular offertory. This is highly unacceptable. I call this "exploitation of the people's faith and devotion." Presently Nigeria is going through one of the worst economic downturn in its history. Life is at its ebb. Families can't afford their food daily. Yet they somehow manage to give some to the Church and the priest. We should all be gRateful for this. But the greedy priest is not satisfied with this. He must, like Oliver Twist, ask for more, and more and more, until the pockets are drained. That is exploitation. The priest should take cognisance of the real life situations of his flock. Part of our duty as priests in these hard times is to help our people to navigate through the difficulties that face them, and we cannot do this if we exploit them financially.
Let me give you another example of how we are exploiting the people. Recently the idea of tithes and tithing has crept into the Catholic Church in Igboland. Clearly this is one of those influences we picking up from Pentecostalism. However, is it justifiable biblically and otherwise? My answer is a categorical NO. In the Old Testament texts which speak about tithes, the whole idea was that of a redistribution of wealth, in order to make sure that the people who don't have would get something from those who have more. It was not something principally to be offered to priests or those who served at the altar. If you take Deut 14:22-29 for instance, this point becomes clear. I call on everyone, both priests and lay faithful to go and read this passage very well. The idea here is that there was an annual occasion for tithing, in which each family was to take one tenth (i.e. the tithe) of their year's produce to the temple, and there in the temple the family itself (not the priests) will together eat what they have brought. In their feasting however, they are enjoined not to forget the Levites, "because they have no property or inheritance". They should also remember to share some of it with "the resident foreigner, the orphan and the widow." So tithing as the book of Deuteronomy makes clear is an occasion for feasting, in which a part of it is shared with the poor, namely the Levites, the resident foreigners, the widows and orphans.
One may argue that the priests are the Levites of our time. That may be correct, but in this passage what entitles the Levites to a share in the tithe is not his serving the LORD, but the fact of his possessing no property. The priests of today (or in the Protestant and Pentecostal churches, the pastor, minister, evangelist) all have possessions: cars, landed property, fat bank accounts, etc. They no longer belong to the poor who were meant to eat the tithes with the people. The primary concern in the Deuteronomic law on tithes is that the people, by means of a communion meal before the LORD, involving one tenth of their produce, should recognise GOD as the one who gave the land and its increase, and that they should share it with those who do not have. When we come to the famous passage in Malachi 3, GOD laments that the people rob him by not bringing in their tithes. This passage in Malachi can only be interpreted in reference to the bringing in of tithes means in Deuteronomy. That is to say, GOD laments that people were not bringing their tithes to the temple to eat as the Law requires, but were eating them them at home. And by doing so, the poor people including the Levites, the widows and orphans, could not get their own share. GOD's concern for the poor is offended.
Now leaving the Bible aside, let's talk of morality and justice. What moral justification can a priest who owns a car, sometimes the latest model in town, has millions in his bank account, owns buildings all over, lives in Parish house that is paid for and catered for by the parishioners, whose feeding and overhead expenses are taken care of by others. What moral justification can such a person ever have to demand that a poor parishioner, whose earning is so meagre, should give him 10% of it, under false pretence that you are the modern day Levite. There is a huge difference. The difference is that the modern day priest is, to say the least, well-to-do while the ancient Levite was destitute. When the priest or minister or pastor under the pretext of being a Levite, demands tithes from his congregation, that would amount to exploitation and forming part of the oppressive machinery. Only a warped sense of rightness, fuelled by egoism, will allow that.
So my advice to fellow priests is that we should keep the seeking of self interest and financial gains by the side and focus on service to the people.
On a further note, discipline and self control are very important in our lives as priests.
RomanceRe: "I Think I Am A Lesbian, I Need Help Please! " by MaKenz: 4:34pm On Mar 22, 2017
Swahili0:
pLs house help me i have feeling for ladies and i dont know what to do
Desist from seeing X-rated movies, it corrupt the mind and make u crave for such.
PoliticsRe: Senate Issues Warrant Of Arrest On Hameed Ali by MaKenz: 5:46pm On Mar 15, 2017
cleatoris:
Shit getting serious.
In Fela's Voice "Animal in human Skin..."
PoliticsRe: Reconstruction Of Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, Lauretta Onochie Mocks PDP by MaKenz: 11:43am On Feb 09, 2017
NgeneUkwenu:
IPOB Vandals below, may have a different opinion!
On till we learn and understand that Nigeria belong to no particular group, tribe, party/religion affiliation and also, govt is a continuum and the govt should be accountable to the citizen and not to be celebrated for mere road construction, our journey far.#Ourmumudondo
InvestmentRe: MMM: Is It Only Me That Observe This? by MaKenz: 2:52pm On Jan 27, 2017
[quote author=ibibiofirstlady post=53174459]I observe that participants dont't redeem their PH pledge on MMM. I have almost 200 thousand naira with them. I requested help (GH) on the 14th and I have been matched and rematched, yet none of those people have paid even a kobo. Though I am not "poor" but I need back my money. Someone on palmchat advised me to forget it but I just can't.

I don't know whether I am the only one facing this challenge.[If na u, u go PH after hearing that MMM in now history huh huh huh]

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