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Same to you. Uruk Ikot!

Marine*etyon:
Da owo ufon mkpo ado ibaha. Nkukwere ukpore edi ke owo imumke ke ubok ikama.

The language of dog eaters!!!

alexis:

And where did you get that information from?

Google!

cold:
Let's go there!
Bishop Oyedepo
G.O Adeboye
Pastor Chris Oyakilome
Pastor Chris Okotie
Pastor Sign Fireman
TB Joshua
Ashimolowo
The Lord's Chosen pastor (can't remember his name now)
TREM's Bishop
CAN's President Oritsejiafor
WF Kumuyi

To be contd...

I will continue for you:
Pastor Zilly Aggrey
Pastor David Ibiomeye
Pastor Adefarasin
T.D Jakes
Renhad Bonnke..........

ooshinibos:

IT IS SCRIPTURAL FOR A CHRISTIAN OR PASTOR TO BE RICH , PEOPLE DONT COMPLAIN ABOUT RICH IMAMS AND MUSLIM when a christian is rich the devil panicks , I PRAY THAT ALL MY PASTORS BE ABUNDANTLY RICH MORE THEN THEIR ENEMIES

While you remain poor?

This your post reminds me Femi Kuti's album' Wonder Wonder' Na pastor live dey better the people dey suffer! I don't really blame the pastors but their gullible followers that treats their pastors like God. For instance how can a pastor purchase an air plane while you the follower remains in the church un employed?

alpha conde: The westerners are busy inventing different things, here in nigeria we are busy inventing political parties, raising flags and clapping hands.



By the way how's tinubus leg?

Tinubu's leg? Are we his doctor?

VAGABONDS IN POWER VIP!!!!!!

crystalballs: Can it fly.

It can fly just book for your flight!!!!!

oride: Culled from Page Turner.

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing. And in a play about a preacher, theatre easily becomes religion. The performance of Wole Soyinka’s 1964 farce “The Trials of Brother Jero,” which I saw recently in Lagos, was not dissimilar to my experience at a Pentecostal church about two weeks later. “The Trials of Brother Jero” centers on a prophet, one of the many freelance Christian clerics of dubious authority that have proliferated in Nigeria. Charlatans are not charlatans all the way through: if they didn’t believe at least a little in what they were selling, it would be difficult for them to persuade others. “In fact, there are eggs and there are eggs,” Brother Jero proclaims in his first soliloquy of the play. “Same thing with prophets. I was born a prophet.”

This element of make-believe is true of both prophets and actors, and so in a play like “Brother Jero” the point is doubled: both acting and religion have an imprecise relationship with the truth. The performance I saw was at a beautiful independent theatre called Terra Kulture, on Victoria Island, an upscale neighborhood of the city. Brother Jero—“Velvet-hearted Jeroboam, Immaculate Jero, Articulate Hero of Christ’s Crusade”—was played with slinky, mellifluous deviousness by Patrick Diabuah as equal parts Hamlet and Wile E. Coyote. The play was fast, funny, wordy, and physical, and it sent up deception for the two-way street that it was: an eyes-half-open transaction between the deceiver and the deceived. “Go and practice your fraudulences on another person of greater gullibility,” says one of Jero’s marks shortly before he, too, is flattered—drawn in with sweet words and gleefully defrauded.

Nigeria, too, is in a season of drama, and words are flying freely. In Rivers State, in the oil-rich Niger Delta, there is a power struggle. This struggle is entirely within the People’s Democratic Party, which is the party of President Goodluck Jonathan, and it centers on the elections of 2015, which the President is interested in contesting. The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is from Rivers State, and she has been vocal on one side of the dispute, acting as the President’s proxy. The governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, widely liked and seen as an insurgent within the party, is on the other side. President Jonathan has been condemned by Nigerians for being ineffectual, for having a make-believe Presidency that promises much and delivers little, but the Dame (as she is called) has been even more a figure of fun. Her command of English is unsteady: she once addressed a gathering of widows as “my fellow-widows.” A cause for more sustained resentment has been her ostentatious personal style in what is still a desperately poor
country.

In early July, a maneuver by the Dame’s supporters to impeach the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly devolved into mayhem. In the ensuing brawl, one member of the House, Chidi Lloyd, attacked another, Michael Chinda, with a ceremonial mace, breaking his skull and critically wounding him in full view of television cameras. In the wake of this attack, Dame Patience made a conciliatory statement in which she described Governor Amaechi as her “son” (the difference in their age is seven years). Newspaper commentators found her appeal hypocritical, since she’d been widely credited with a major role in the state’s crisis. After all, she had recently been in Rivers State on an eleven-day visit, with the full security apparatus of the Presidency. Her visit was so disruptive and intimidating that the governor had been pinned down in his lodge, unable to move around his capital city, Port Harcourt. And in the House of Assembly there was a group of members so fanatically loyal to her that one of them, Evans Bipi, had declared to the press, “Why must [Governor Amaechi] be insulting my mother, my Jesus Christ on earth?”

Loudest among the voices of protest raised against the Dame was Wole Soyinka’s. He took her to task for imposing herself on the people and for acting like a “parallel head of state.” Soyinka called a press conference in Lagos and built his case against the President and his wife around an extended and unexpected metaphor: the twelfth-century persecution and murder of Thomas à Becket by the agents of Henry II. Speaking about the way a king might tacitly condone crimes and, thus, making pointed reference to the way Governor Amaechi was being stripped of power in Rivers State, Soyinka asked, “Are we not moving towards absolute monarchism? There are many worrying historical parallels.” A written statement he gave to the press had a more ad-hominem quality, ending with the line “You can extract a hippopotamus from the swamps, but you cannot take the swamp out of a hippopotamus.” This was generally interpreted as an ungentle poke at the Dame, a woman of considerable size. Even some of Soyinka’s supporters squirmed at the analogy.

Political activity has always been as central to Soyinka’s work as theatre has. He was uncensorable right from the start. He was imprisoned for twenty-two months in the late sixties, during Nigeria’s civil war, for his attempt to negotiate a peace between the Federal and Biafran sides. He spent much of that time in solitary confinement, an experience that he wrote about in a memoir, “The Man Died.” In 1994, he fled Nigeria when the military regime of General Sani Abacha threatened his life. His passport had been seized, so he went across the land border into the Republic of Benin, and from there he made his way into exile in the United States. He agitated for a return to democratic rule and was charged with treason in absentia, in 1997. But he returned home after General Abacha died, in 1998, and he lives in Nigeria now.

He remains one of the country’s most fearless defenders of human rights, speaking out on issues from the Boko Haram insurgency to the aggressive legislation curtailing the rights of gays and lesbians. He is famous and respected, and perhaps better known to the ordinary Nigerian for his political activity than for the linguistically intricate and thematically complex plays—among them “Death and the King’s Horseman” and “Madmen and Specialists”—that won him the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1986.

Word of Soyinka’s July press conference reached the Dame, and she was not amused. Three days later, she issued a statement in which she called Soyinka “an embarrassment” to Nigeria. And it was this unexpected turning of the tables, this swerve into the theatre of the absurd, that I wished to ask Soyinka about. I got my chance a few days later, when I visited him in Abeokuta, about an hour north of Lagos, in his bucolic home at the edge of the woods. The house was cool, shadowed, and quiet. It had none of the ostentation that one expects from a Nigerian “big man”—no security fence or luxury cars or marble floors. Instead, there was indigo-dyed hand-woven aso-oke cloth on the windows, and there were phalanxes of African sculpture, both Yoruba and otherwise, standing in watchful groups around the living room. It was a reassuring place, a suitable lair for a man whose name, soyinka, literally means “the daemons surround me.” I was reminded of another one of the epithets for him: “child of the forest.” He lived up to this designation as well, often going out hunting and bearing in himself a more congenial relationship with traditional religious belief than most Nigerians, converts to Islam or Christianity, would entertain. Soyinka is a devotee of Ogun—the god of iron and “the first symbol of the alliance of disparities”—and his “Myth, Literature and the African World” is a learned exploration of the links between epic theater, Yoruba ritual, aesthetics, and ethics.

My visit was about a week after his seventy-ninth birthday. He looked vigorous, effortlessly handsome. His famous afro and beard, both a vivid white, looked less like signs of age than evidence of some unending efflorescence. “So, what does it feel like to be an embarrassment?” His eyes closed with mirth.

“It is not only the end of farce. It is the end of all the genres.” Then, still laughing, but with more fight in his voice, he added, “She was unelected—and it is irrelevant if she’s a man or a woman—she is a mere appendage of power. If there’s someone she doesn’t find embarrassing, there must be something wrong with that person.”

Teju Cole is a photographer and writer. His novel “Open City” won the Internationaler Literaturpreis in June. He contributes frequently to Page-Turner.

What type of nation is this? Everytime tribe tribe and tribes!
Even the educated ones are not left out. What a shame!!!!

mosho2good: Pls wat is plate number

The flat side of your head with the inscription O-L-O-D-O written on it.

ChEkWaS IyKe :
When I get my car, I can now comment. 4 now no comment.

You have already commented!!

redfly:
Don't mind them, they're just a bunch of anarchists.

So sad you call them anti Christ! What then do you call our politicians who are paid millions each for doing nothing?
Sorry I mean anachist!

redfly:
Don't mind them, they're just a bunch of anarchists.

So sad you call them anti Christ! What then do you call our politicians who are paid millions each for doing nothing?
Sorry I mean anarchists!

peckhamboi: [size=13pt]Does anybody know where to download her p*orn film, DESTRUCTIVE INSTINCT?

I have been trying to no avail.[/size]

Google it.

obowunmi: Even Americans don't know how people died. So many unresolved murders.

That is not totally true. If u are in doubt get ur cable and watch Discovery ID or C and I. Those people are really trying, at least out of 10 cases 9 will be solved. Some cases that are considered cold will even be brought back to life after so many years and resolved. Here in Nigeria they can't even solve 1 out of thousand cases.

mkmyers45: The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

Where is it written in the Bible

acume: Can anybody recommend any other good disinfectants apart from dettol?

You can use kerosine!

ekwah:

Throw this piece of trash into the dustbin.

Speak English if you want to communicate.

Don't you understand? He is a Boko Haram member.

mactoni91: Latest from Abuja on ASUU strike !!!
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ﺎﻤﻫﺮﯿﺨﺸﭼﺪﻧﺍﺩ ﯽﻤﻧ ﺮﮔﺩ ﻪﯾﺎﺳ ﺶﻘﻧ
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ﺎﻣ ﻩﺮﯿﺧ ﻢﺸﭼﻭ ﺭﺍﻮﯾﺪﺘﻓﺭ ﺮﮔﺍ ﻭ ﺭﺍﻮﯾﺩ
ﺮﮔﺍﺭﻮﻧ ﻥﺍﺩ ﯽﻤﻧ . ﺮﮔﺩ ﻪﯾﺎﺳ ﺶﻘﻧ ﺶﻘﻧ ﺍﺪﯿﭙﻓﺭ ﺮﮔ . ﺎﻣ ﻩﺮﯿﺧ ﻢﺸﭼ ﺖﺴﯿﻧ ﺍﺪﺘﻓﺭ ﺎﻣ ﻩﺮﯿﺧ ﻢﺸﭼ ﻭ ﺭﺍﻮﯾﺩ ﺶﻘﻧ ﺖﺴﯿﻧ
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ﺎﻤﻫﺮﯿﺨﻤﻧ .
If I hear anything else, I'll let you guys know!

BOKO HARAM MEMBER!!!

Evestar200: where did u c tribalism in ''delta nor dy carry last'' is delta a one tribe state?,,,abeg park well jor,,nor dy jealous us

Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jealous? U are very funny. Her glory is for all of us. U would have said Nija no dey carry last. That sounds better.

Evestar200: yes o,,DELTA NOR DY CARRY LAST,,,,3 GOLDs FOR OKAGBARE(EVERYTHING IS COMPLETE) NEXT MONTH

All these Delta no dey carry last things!!! Is she representing Delta or Nigeria as a whole? You people should stop bringing tribalism into sport.

Brimmie: These people should change their name!!

Abeggi ma life cost pass N7200!

I know what you are insinuating. But can't any other plane crash? Or is crash peculiar to only Dana?

REHOZIBAH:

@Nedu2000. That's correct!

You are as wrong as the guy. Oliha never scored a goal at the world cup.

I am very happy with this development. But how about others who are suffering from this ailment and in dire need of help?

Saint Chukz: Yawns...the fact that he won on other surfaces once or twice doesn't negate the fact that he is just Average on those surfaces. I can list a handful of players who were average who also won once or twice on different surfaces. The yardstick i have used is that if he can't easily replicate on other surfaces what he does with ease on the clay surface, then he is simply or maybe "slightly" above average on those surfaces.

You yard stick is wrong. How about Federer who has won only once on the clay but seven times on grass? Would you call him an average player? I know you will argue that he has won US open and Australia open several times but remember that Nadal is only 27 years. He can still play for some years his only albatross is injury. You don't call any player rated among the greatest an average player. Any player who has won the four major grand slam at least once is among the greats.

Saint Chukz: Nadal is only King on Clay...but when it comes to other surfaces, he is just Average. Am not surprised at all...just that it was an early ouster, always knew he would be sent packing @ one point or the other. Now..the coast is clear for my No.1 choice. Novak Djoko...the Beast....!

You are wrong! How can you call him an average player on other surfaces? Are you aware he has won wimbledon twice, US open once Australian open once? It doesn't take an average player to win any grand slam.

jackbauersballs: Ahahahahaahahaha

This is the funniest news I've heard today..,

What is funny about this?

cb_917d:

Don't be ignorant. It's a bond not a fee, of course you'll get your money back if you return home which you're expected to, hence you're not throwing the £3000 away. By the way, such system exists in South Africa alias repatriation fee. Imagine even our own African counterpart imposes such system on other African nations. No blame game, it is what it is.

Where do you expect an average Nigerian to get such an amount bond or no bond?

toluxa1: [size=18pt]It is the Redeemed Church not Redeem Church[/size]

This one na grammer!!!

ATM-CARD:
.U're a big FOOL.Must u reply a post?Ewu

And must you insult him? Is that what Redeem taught you?