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I have a copy of the books. They are simply extension of the Pentateuch.

Little wonder he turned out to be a TV star! He was born on 31st October 1959. That was the same day television broadcast first hit the airwaves in Nigeria and also in Africa through the effort of Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the premier of Western Region when he set up the Western Nigeria Television(WNTV).

Where is the 12 Billion US Dollars Gulf War windfall for which your government couldn't account?

When Christians Say Ex-Christians Were Never Christians

The reactions of self-identified Christians on social media to the story have been ballistic. Predictably. The dominant response is that the man was never a Christian in the first place or that he was never genuinely called by God to be a pastor.
That response is almost automatic whenever a Christian publicly abandons Christianity. The apostate, we are told, was a fake Christian. The pastor was fake or was never a pastor. The conversion was never real. The calling was counterfeit. It does not matter that the person may have spent years preaching, praying, baptising, shiboroboing and shibarabaing, leading a congregation as well as publicly cursing those who do not tithe or sow seed.

The moment he walks away, the retrospective verdict is that he was never a Christian.
The Ondo case is particularly interesting because this is not just a church member changing his religious affiliation. Felix founded and pastored the Image of God Evangelical and Prophetic Ministries before publicly announcing that he had left Christianity and embraced Isese. His departure has opened the usual arguments about apostasy, authenticity, culture, spiritual deception and religious identity.

But should Christians who insist that he or anyone who makes that journey was never a Christian not pause for a moment and examine the logic of what they are saying? Do they actually believe it or is it simply a theological escape hatch?
Christianity, from the little I know, has a long and complicated history with this question. Apostasy is a recognised Christian concept precisely because the possibility of someone turning away from a faith he once professed has been taken seriously.

Christian traditions disagree sharply about what such a departure means. While some hold that a saved person cannot finally fall away because God preserves the elect, others teach that a believer can fall away and, therefore, must persevere in faith.

In other words, Christianity itself has never had one uncontested answer to the question of whether someone who abandons the faith was ever genuinely Christian. But popular Christian discourse often reduces the matter to the simplest possible formula, which is that if someone left, he or she was never really one of them.

There is something remarkably convenient about that position. It makes the proposition almost impossible to falsify.
If somebody converts to Christianity, the conversion is evidence of the truth of Christianity. If he remains Christian, the faith has produced a faithful believer. If he leaves Christianity years later, the response is that he was never a Christian. Whatever happens, Christianity wins the argument. That is a rather useful theological arrangement.

However, apply the same standard across religions and it takes very little time for the logic to become uncomfortable. Suppose a committed Isese adherent spends 20 years practising it, learning its traditions, consulting its priests, participating in its rituals and publicly identifying himself with it before announcing one day that he has become a Christian. Would Christians readily accept the argument that he was never really an Isese adherent? Or would they celebrate him as someone who had finally discovered the truth?
Also, if a Muslim who had spent decades identifying as a Muslim became a Christian, would Christians say he was never a Muslim? Very unlikely.

Twenty-one times out of 20, the Christian interpretation would be that he was once a Muslim but had now found Christ. So, why should the opposite journey require a different vocabulary? If a Muslim becomes a Christian, he has converted. If an Isese adherent becomes a Christian, he has converted. But if a Christian becomes a Muslim or an Isese practitioner, suddenly he was never a Christian.

That is an inconsistent principle and a conclusion designed to protect a prior belief. There is, of course, a perfectly legitimate Christian argument to make, which is that the pastor has made a terrible spiritual mistake, that he has apostatised, that he has been deceived, that he has misunderstood Christianity or that his new religious convictions are false. Christians are fully entitled to believe all of that.

Indeed, if Christianity claims exclusive truth, it would be strange for Christians not to regard a departure from it as spiritually wrong. What is more difficult to defend is the insistence that nobody who subsequently leaves Christianity could ever have been genuinely Christian.

There is an even deeper problem, particularly within Pentecostal Christianity, where personal testimony is often treated as a spiritual certificate of authenticity. Churches routinely celebrate dramatic conversion stories. Someone who says he was a Muslim, traditional worshipper, atheist or unbeliever yesterday and encountered Jesus today is welcomed as evidence of the power of the Gospel. His previous identity is accepted as real because the reality of his conversion depends upon it.

But logically, religious identity cannot become genuine only when someone is moving in the direction we approve of. If conversion is possible, deconversion must also be possible. Conceptually, at least. If a person can sincerely move from one religious conviction to another, then the honest response to his departure is to examine what happened rather than rewrite his entire history.

Ex-pastor Felix may never have been genuinely Christian. It is equally possible that he was.
His understanding of Christianity may have changed. His experience of Christianity may have disappointed him. His understanding of Isese may have changed. Or he may simply have reached a conclusion that Christians consider profoundly wrong.

We do not know enough to pronounce on the state of his soul. That, ironically, is where some Christians should remember their own theology. If God alone ultimately knows the heart, Christians should be rather careful about doing His job for Him. The more interesting question raised by Felix’s departure is, therefore, not whether he was ever a Christian, but why a man who spent years preaching Christianity could become sufficiently convinced that he should abandon it altogether.

That question may be uncomfortable, but it is a much more serious one. Discomfort, I believe, is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes a religious community learns more from the person who leaves than from the 1,000 people still remaining. Maybe instead of declaring him a fake Christian, Christians should first ask what happened to him. This is not because his conclusion must be right, but because if there is nothing to learn from the person who leaves, then the faith has made itself remarkably resistant to self-examination.

They will be made to sign a two(2 ) year bond.

exco90:
Anybody know about better lover magazine?

Better Lover was mid 1990's up until early 2000's.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the Afro – beat musician would be sentenced to a long term of imprisonment for failing to declare some foreign currency that he had legitimately brought into the country. Fela had kept the funds as immediate living expenses for his band, due to begin an overseas tour shortly after…………………………………. While Fela Anikulapo Kuti languished in gaol, a blue – blood scion of the Northern aristocracy, Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, known as ‘Triple A’, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, was caught – literally – with his pants down in the Austrian capital, Vienna. He was robbed of a large sum of in foreign currency – in cash – well over and above his legitimate entitlement, and by a local ‘Follow’. Dalliance over, ‘Triple A’ fell asleep. When he woke up, his companion was gone, and so was his wallet. Such was his confidence in a personal immunity that the super civil servant made a report to the Austrian police, and the escapade was bruited over the international press, from where it was picked up and near flogged to death by the Nigerian press, calling for equity in the implementation of justice. The media dug deeper, discovered that this civil servant kept, not one, but several foreign accounts. Their screams became deafening and perhaps did succeed in deafening the ears of the corrective duo (Buhari and Idiagbon). They heard nothing, and so maintained a stolid silence, confident that, sooner or later, the media outcry would subside.

SOURCE: YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN BY WOLE SOYINKA.

FIFA has an explanation to make regarding the player of the tournament. Why did they select the player with the fewer MAN OF THE MATCH award? Rodri was man of the natch for a single match which Messi won 5 Man of match awards.

10 Goal Thriller! Just 2 short of all-time record of 12 set in 1954 when Austria defeated Switzerland by 7 goals to 5.

The 24th country on the list, Suriname is not in Africa.

When it comes to online purchase of data and airtime, I don't think there is anything the wrongful recipient can do to make a refund unlike funds which can be transferred when it is initially sent to a wrong account number.

Hezmatosky210:
Na this kin thing dey sweet pastors it will look as if it's their prayer efforts
But go and meet them for house rent or just small money to support your family or to even eat, they'll post you till thy kingdom comes

You have a sense of entitlement.

An Obidient finally secures an appointment under Tinubu!

The first WC since 1986 that its opening day is not a FFriday. From 1990 to 2022, the opening matches were played on Friday.

Fun thing that could happen at the World Cup:

U.S. could play … Iran?

Should Iran and the U.S. each finish second in their groups, the teams will meet in a tantalizing matchup in Dallas on July 3

...a day before the United States’ 250th independence.

The story of Richard Gonzalez is wild:

"RICHARD GONZALEZ HAD ALWAYS been a kind of wild card in the pharmaceutical industry. For years, as he was climbing up the pharmaceutical industry ranks, he had falsely claimed to have received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Houston and a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Miami.

In fact, he had dropped out of the University of Houston in the early 1970s and spent only four months at the University of Miami. He never earned a degree of any kind. By the time this lie was discovered, Gonzalez had become an important and talented executive at Abbott Laboratories with decades of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Gonzalez spent much of his career at the Chicago-area company, working his way up commercial, research, and manufacturing operations to the posts of chief operating officer and president.

In 2007, Gonzalez was diagnosed with throat cancer and retired. The idea was to get healthy and play golf. The cancer went away, but Gonzalez was miserable. “My golf game is lousy—it’s not like I want to spend four hours on the golf course,” he would later say.

He returned to Abbott two years later, initially to run the company’s venture portfolio. When he came back, Gonzalez informed the company that his biography contained inaccurate information about obtaining academic degrees, which Abbott corrected in his official biography.

When Crain’s Chicago Business broke the news about Gonzalez’s credentials, Abbott initially said that the degrees were included in securities filings as a result of an internal administrative error.

In 2013, Abbott, which specialized in medical devices and nutrition, split itself up. The company spun out its biggest prescription drugs into a new company called AbbVie, and Gonzalez was tapped to lead it as CEO. He earned over $20 million a year..."

~ Nathan Vardi's "For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug"

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This guy built something on nothing and got away with it. Not everyone is so lucky.

Osun State Government has issued a disclaimer regarding this news. The King has not been deposed.

The trouble that every religion encounters is that the answers it provides today are challenged by new human awareness that comes into being tomorrow. Adherents of every religion are in constant struggle to reinterpret their religion to keep it relevant. A religion dies when it can no longer be bent to explain today’s world within the context of its original precepts.

In James 2:1-9, the Bible condemns showing favoritism based on wealth, describing a scenario where a rich person in fine clothing and gold rings is given a seat of honor, while a poor person in shabby clothes is told to stand or sit on the floor. James calls this partiality, or discrimination, a sin.

At the last AFCON, we defeated South Africa via penalty shoot out in the semis.

When it comes to penalties, “God has abandoned both teams. They’re on their own.”

barnny:
Why won't he dose when he already knows his client is going to be jailed for life imprisonment

You don't know the meaning of PROSECUTION in this context. The Lawyers on the side of the government are the PROSECUTION LAWYERS while Kanu's lawyers are the DEFENDING LAWYERS.

StoryHaven:
He has a good relationship with Pa Adeboye but takes Oyedepo as an enemy. While the same Oyedepo is Adeboyes boy.

How do we explain this.

Bakare's fallout with Oyedepo is rooted in biblical principles. Oyedepo wrote a book about the SACREDNESS of the anointing oil which Bakare faulted publicly. Bakare is also against some of the practices of Oyedepo such as feet washing. excessive tithing to avoid the vicissitudes of life.

While it is easy to excise the south-east to form the Republic of Biafra, Christian populations are spread across the 19 northern states. I wonder if, and how, northern Christians will be physically relocated into one geographic space. Some things are easy to implement on social media but are very complicated in practical terms. There is a sizeable non-Muslim population in the North. Southern Borno, for instance, is home to a large population of Christians. Gombe, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi—all in the North-east—boast an impressive population of “indigenous” Christians. There is a Christian belt that runs across Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Kano and Jigawa. We are not talking of some Igbo or Yoruba Christians doing business in these places. We are talking about "indigenes". Moreover, there are no reports of “Christian genocide” in northern states such as Adamawa, Nasarawa, Gombe, Kwara, Kogi and Taraba. How then will they figure in “Operation exNigeria”?

A woman with high body count. A woman with high body count will find it difficult to maintain a long term relationship. She has lost the ability to connect with a new man. Yes, things might start off good with yall, but in

The long run, it’ll all come crashing down. I don’t know how you wanna do it, but find out if she has a high body or not. Don’t ask her DIRECTLY.

Bill Gates scored 1590 in the 1970^s to gain admission into Harvard.

have a sincere question that has been occupying my mind: what are the policies of the current government aimed at creating employment? Employment generation is the most important indicator of economic growth not increased revenue!

The private sector is the primary driver of employment creation, and it is incumbent upon the government to provide support and encouragement to foster its growth. For instance, the German government implemented a 75% grant to encourage manufacturers to establish their factories in the former eastern Germany, thereby facilitating the industrialization of that region after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In Nigeria, the focus seems to be solely on increasing revenue at all costs, providing more money to be shared by FAAC.

However, it is essential to assess whether these increased revenue streams are effectively trickling down to the people and the private sector, which could potentially facilitate genuine emancipation and development.

Nigeria has for instance become one of the most expensive countries in the world to import cars, a product that is not domestically manufactured, due to punitive tariffs and duties imposed to generate additional revenue. The customs authorities are under immense pressure from the government to increase revenue. The so called revenue generation are, therefore, in some cases extortionate, and the people hapless.

While there have been efforts to build more infrastructures, it is crucial to evaluate whether these infrastructure developments alone are sufficient to generate employment in a country plagued by high levels of corruption. Contract sums in Nigeria are often highly inflated, raising concerns about the impact of corruption on governance.

It seems, in addition, that those in government are only interested in solving all the problems plaguing the country by tasking the masses to make more sacrifices while they continue to live ostentatiously, or have they have started reducing their jumbo allowances and perks in line with our economic realities?

If the primary focus of government remains solely on generating revenue and allocating funds to the tiers of government without corresponding efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the masses, what you will have is the current elitist society, not an egalitarian one.

When those in government only focus attention on benefits they can derive while in government, you are only building a society sitting on a keg of gunpowder, an implosion is a matter of time, when the masses can no longer endure the hardship.

With the biometric device used for capturing and detecting finger prints in place, the use of fraudulently obtained NIN, BVN, pictures a d other details cannot be successfully utilised. For example if a scammer goes to a bank to open an account with such illegally obtained information, he will be asked to match his fingerprints with that on the biometric device which belongs to the rightful owner. The ILLEGAL FINGERPRINT will be flagged immediately.

Plots of Deceit: When Shelter Becomes Scam

Once upon a quieter season in Nigeria’s real estate journey, wealth was earned, not staged. Men like Jide Taiwo built reputations through quiet precision, not public parades. Their offices weren’t filled with influencers; they were anchored by trained surveyors, town planners, and professionals who understood the soul of land, not just the cost of it. Companies such as Primewater View, UPDC, and Landmark Africa emerged not from Instagram reels, but from consistent service and credible results. They sold homes, not dreams. They laid blocks, not traps.

But the winds have shifted. In the last five years, real estate has begun to wear a mask. And under that mask is a theatre of performance: one where everyone, suddenly, is a realtor, without licensure, without land, without legacy. The streets of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Kwara are now stage sets for unsolicited pitches. Young, uniformed women stationed at malls, junctions, train platforms, sometimes with radiant charm but dubious briefs, wave glossy flyers like sacred scrolls: “Own a plot just five minutes from the airport!”, though it is buried deep in uncharted bushes, where even Google Maps loses its way.

The story gets darker. A troubling trend has emerged where CEOs of these pop-up firms gallivant across London, Doha, and Dubai, showcasing wealth not backed by credibility, but by illusion. Their Instagram pages are laced with soft life aesthetics, seducing unsuspecting investors who believe, “This man is too wealthy to scam me.” But as history now shows, many of these companies collapse under their own falsehoods. There are buyers who receive nothing after payment. Some inherit swamps, others receive layouts that never see approval. Then there are the wild investment schemes: “Get 200% ROI in 6 months”, Ponzi wrapped in real estate lingo.

And yet, the madness doesn’t end there. Land in some Lagos suburbs now rivals outer London in price, but with none of the infrastructure. Plots are priced in pound(and dollar) like they come with Queen’s guards and underground rails. The question must be asked: where are the regulators? Agencies like LASRERA and REDAN ought to be gatekeepers. Instead, many function as distant spectators, trapped in red tape or slumber, watching as citizens are bled dry.

Of course, Nigeria’s housing deficit remains one of the country’s greatest ironies, tens of thousands homeless in a nation bursting with “For Sale” signs. A functioning, ethical real estate sector would be a balm. But in its current form, it is a marketplace of parasitism: where inflated hopes are sold in square metres, and shelter is held hostage by scam artistry.

It is high time the government and its regulatory agencies rose from their bureaucratic stupor. The firestorm of fraud will not quench itself. And if we do not act, homeownership in Nigeria will become not just a dream deferred, but a tragedy lived in full daylight.

Taken together, these days, whenever I stumble upon a real estate advert, my brain whispers: ‘Buy now, regret forever.’