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Built2last:
This guy doesn't agree with Freeze

I received a personal message on twitter by someone asking my take on celebration of Christmas. I took time in 1997 to study the origin of Christmas and the role Constantine played. As some of us may know, the origin of Christmas, could be traced to ancient
Rome. Christmas was a day for celebrating the Sun god. However, because Constantine was a Christian, the day was changed to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ after a long battle with the Roman native believers.. Prior to this time, professed Christians were slaughtered on the day of the sun god celebration. This was about 386 AD. Many people claim that Christmas should not be celebrated because it has links to roman gods in origin.If we must talk about origin, do you know that every day of the week is dedicated and named after a roman god? SUN day, MOON day, Tool sday,WODEN sday,THOR sday,FREYJA sday SATURN sday? all names of Pagan gods. We all use these days of the week, Sunday services we all attend has its origin from the Roman god. Whether Our Lord Jesus Christ was born on 25th December called Christmas day or not is immaterial to me. The most important thing is that a Saviour was born to salvage mankind from God's wrath .If Christ was not born, my life would have been miserable. Thank you Father for giving us Jesus Christ. "The earth is the lords and his fullness thereof." Everyday belongs to God including Christmas day. May I also state that culture and traditions have always been borrowed in history. That a land was used by pagans in the past doesn't stop Christians from building a church on the same land. What is the origin of birthdays? We all learnt to celebrate our birthdays because we grew up seeing people do it. The greatest gift is choice and that choice is to lead us into daring and innovative decisions to better our lives.
Above all, Christmas should be for those who know Christ because its about Him. If You don’t know Him and celebrate. You are probably celebrating something else.

God bless you for the scholarly response with spiritual depth.

Our God created the heaven and earth for the fact that the devil through paganism has made people to celebrate a particular day as a ritual day does not stop christian from also celebrating the birth of the most important gift to mankind on that day. The big question is are we Christian worshiping the same idol? The answer is NO. Can God deliver a pagan priest and make him an instrument to work out His purpose? The answer is YES, he used even Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus etc.

However for Christmas to have God's desired impact in your life, you must have experiential salvation. Being Born again by acknowledging your sins, confessing with deep repentance and receive pardon through faith. It is not a mental acceptance of Christ as personal Lord and saviour, it is an experience that comes from deep prayer of repentance.

CHRIST IS BORN !

Chrisrare:
So what do u want social media to do? Do u want us to e u an award??

To learn a lesson and he careful with house help. They can be very deadly. So learn from her experience and be greatly you are not learning the hard way.

It is time to find a strict way of monitoring the practice of commercial driving in Lagos. Most of these drivers are not educated, drive wrecklessly, and abuse alcohol and drugs.

God touch LSG so that they can regulate their practice.

Greatfuse:
Togolese passport get respect pass shithole own Nah, those guys no get sense @ all

That's the reason the won't use Togo passport, especially when they have criminal intentions. They will go there commit crime and if arrested, they it will be reported that Nigerian are criminals not knowing the terrible intentions of some of these African countries to ruin our image. Of course if they escape, they will go back to Togo and deny ever having anything to do with Nigerian passport.
Thank you NIS, keep it up!

I feel so ashamed for this man and my country. Why will he not be running his mouth when the press in connivance with APC led government choose to ignore the way he flouted our law by failing to perform the mandatory NYSC program. He is not only rude about it, he in addition want to become a governor of a state to enable him perpetrate more attrocities?

How is PMB fight corruption when he choose to keep such a man in his cabinent? APC and self righteousness!

So do you still expect us to trust you Mr. President? I mean do you expect Nigerians to take you serious when you talk?

Sir, no attempt to be rude to you or your office. You said Abacha is not corrupt because in your own perspective he built road and hospitals through your PTF. Now this money that Swiss is returning was said to have been stolen by your Abacha. Will you be humble enough to accept your error of judgement by apologising to Nigerians?

After losing 2011 election, you were interviewed by a popular TV station then ibid you will contest again for the same office of the president, you wept and said no. The presenter reemphasized the question and you repeated your answer never to contest for election again in Nigeria. However, you bruised away the Shane to contest in 2015. Somehow you are the president today. One would expect you to hit the ground running but about 6months to the end of your tenure, Nigerians are certainly feeling more frustrated today than they were before electing you as president.
You went to Benue state and claimed you were not aware the IGP disobeyed your order to relocate to Benue state, with a public promise to investigate. As at today December 12, 2018 I am not aware of your fulfillment of this promise despite the loss of lives.

I ask again Mr President, do you think Nigerians should trust you? Do you think we should take you seriously when you make public pronouncements or promise? From my understanding of the above, I can't trust you again.

Buhari has started a trends that may eventually split this country.Let the Arewa people keep undignifying silence on this matter because it favours them now, when the tide eventually change and the SS and SE push them out of leadership, let them not complain.

If someone is doing the wrong thing to favour one section of the country at the expense of others, it should be roundly condemned.

I am with you on this Rochas Okorocha.

Please remind Adams Oshiomole that the same OBj promoted Buhari in 2015 by publicly tearing his PDP card. He was hailed by the Adams and Tinubu's of this country. Now the man has changed his political beliefs, why are you calling him name.

APC should stop thier spirit of intolerance ,it won't make Nigerians to love them more in 2019.

Daviddson:
Until we stop being hypocritical and accept the fact that there's a wide difference between criticism and outright hate speech, we may just be heading to a Rwanda-esque genocide. And the police force and court too are not helping matters.

What many people on Twitter, Nairaland, Facebook call free speech is nothing less than hate speech and fake news designed to cause war. The police have been shackled from arresting people because they know the cases will drag on in court endlessly.

Perhaps we should ask you for your own definition of hate speech. El-Rufai is one Governor that is known for make careless speeches to attack opposition. Just last week he engaged Peter Obi and threatened that he will repay Obi back when he comes to the North for campaign. You probably may need to ask him if that's is love speech.
If you forget, let's remind ourselves, El-Rufai and some APC guys went to Anambra on the eve of election on the he guise of monitoring the election without any clearance and the state government to a our crisis and election manipulation stopped unauthorized movement of people during the election day. As a result, he and his team couldn't achieve thier plan. He recently came out to make spurious allegations against the man , saying he demolished mosques, just to incite northern population against the man.

El-Rufai has done enough damage in this country and we won't wait to allow his likes to stop our hard earned freedom of speech.

The woman deserves experience in African poverty pain. Let her go, nobody will tell her that she in trouble, it's only her experience that will open her eyes.

dadalicious:
Ignorance is really a disease.
When I wa younger, anytime I see that whitish clouds from an airplane, I always thought it was a jet moving very fast.
Thank bro for enlightenment

There are thousands of us with similar belief.
Thanks Op for the lecture.Keep it up.

Fake and uneccessary waste of people's time.

What do you gain trying to waste people's time? That's how I wasted my time on this nonsense when I got to the point of cashing out , the start giving some impossible terms.

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
either he was searched or not does not remove the fact that his running mate, peter obi, is a tribal and religious bigot.
Peter obi demolished ten mosques and chased Hausa wtraders away from anambra when he was the governor of the state. Peter obi hates Muslims

Arrant nonsense. Go to Jigawa state and many other state in the North, they budget money to build mosque all over the state and deny churches' application for approval to build place of worship.
If mosque disobey the state law by mounting loud speaker that disturbs people from sleeping or didn't get approval , the law applies. Now don't misunderstand me, I am not affirming your claim that Peter demolished mosques. How do you explain using state money to build mosques and yet you deny land approval request to build churches?
That can't be a campaign issue seriously.

NwaAmaikpe:



Who are you to say a British Royal goofed?
Can you say the same to your mere Oba of Benin?
We really have to learn to respect real royalty.

Prince Charles didn't button it wrongly.
He just showed us the actual way of buttoning up a suit.

British royalty lead,
We follow.
God bless the Queen.

You comment is completely out of place. We are adults and have sense of right and wrong. How dear you ridicule our royal fathers with such insult? The Prince is old and from what I can deduce, he is married to a Camilla that only care about her umbrella than how his snatched husband looks. She was busy carrying umbrella about as if, if the rain or sun should touch her she will melt.
Why should we accept a wrong thing simply because it is coming from the royal? We have sense of direction o.

It is obvious everything is wrong with this man's sense of judgement. First he was with the PDP that did nothing good foer 16years, 8 of those years he was Governor of one one the leading oil producing states in this country and latter became minority leader in the Senate? The same man annoited the present Governor of his state, Akwa Ibom state and yet they didn't do anything?

My conclusion is that he has attraction to party that does nothing and will only turn back to confess the truth after his interest has been satisfied. Therefore, it looks like its now APC that is the next party that does nothing good and that perhaps PDP is about to start doing things right. He has attraction to party that does nothing good. Beware of Akpabio!

I expect Mr President to go by road from Lagos airport so that he can appreciate what the committee along that axis experience daily.
Residents of that axis of Lagos state especially Badagary should not fail to protest the poor state of thier road.

4kDdullard:
Pharisee! Moro he would join that midget VP pastor in Aso Rock to be deceiving Nigerians.
I wish religion could be banned in the country. The other day I saw a picture of Kumuyi in Aso Rock with Buhari and some idiots were applauding him.
Religion is a haox!

Why do you want religion banned because you don't like some people. Can't you see that your mindset is completely against the admonition of the scripture which says judge not?
Agreed the minister may have so many public actions that you and I can say is not consistent with Christianity but the same scripture also say no man cometh unto Him will be cast away. We may not like Ameachi as a person but it will be complete and perhaps worse evils then to wish religion is cancelled.
If a few are not doing it right , it doesn't implies people can't do it right.
Finally, Jesus said in the Bible, he that is without sin, let him/her cast the first stone at the Adulterous woman. Please can you say with all good conscience that all your actions have always been right?

SpecialAdviser:
Thes[b][/b]e Muslim youths should be conscious of their attitude because it is really bad if religious politics enter Yoruba land.

I always have respect for Yoruba religious tolerance but recent events is a danger signal no thanks to Buhari who started everything about religious politics in 2003 when he asked Muslims to vote a Muslim candidate.

In 2011 his party symbol was a Muslim school pencil. It shall never be well with Buhari

The truth is the Yorubas are not immune to religious politics. We can remember what happened and is still happening in Osun state.
Although you may argue Ilorin is not core Yoruba but those of us that have the privilege of growing up in Ilorin, know better. Today, University of Ilorin is under the full gripe of Muslim with all key officer been Muslim, the key appointment in State Governmt are manned by Muslims.
It is a question of time and religion will ripe Yoruba pl and apart.

Chapter 2
1. And it came to pass that after a few days, Atiku the son of Abubarkar paid a visit to a Prophet from the land of Owu, to atone for the sins which he sinned against the prophet while the Prophet was on the throne and Atiku the son of Abubarkar was his deputy.
2. The the prophet from Owu, Olusegun, the son of Obasanjo, prophesy as he use to do every four year when a new king is about to be enthroned
3. That, having atoned for your sins, you Atiku the son of Abubarkar , has been forgiven, you may go and become king.
4.For it has been his character to annoint a new king for the kingdom before election , and his prophesy has always come to pass, howbileit , some members of the Kingdom, like not his word and sought to silence him.
5. But Atiku the son of Abubarkar find favour in the sight of the retired Generals, certain if the sub-kingdom of the Middlebelt, because of the way king Buhari allowed the shepherds of the same tribe with him to kill them .
6.And it came to pass that the king decided by the power of the throne to block the account of certain politicians, in whose hands are aboundance of money.

FriendNG:
Shia are politically weightless. Buhari don't even need your support. Go out together with ipobs and other haters in mass to vote for Atiku.

But at the end Buhari will still have a flawless victory. The highest you can do is 2 wail & call it rigging.

Hmn you better watch what you say if you are truly for PMB. History have a funny way of repeating itself. Remember a story of a Goliath and a David in the Holy Bible?, I remember how the campaign against GEJ started like what is going on, and low an incumbent was defeated. Even Germany the former world champion was defeated in the lady world cup. Don't be too sure! God hates the proud.

FarahAideed:
I remain adamant that this woman is working for Buhari and does not mean well for Nigeria .... Remember in 2015 she said Buhari was the change Nigeria needed and look how it turned and today she is saying Atiku is not the change and going by her record for poor logic we should expect great positive surprise from Atiku then!!!!

Your claim can't be correct. I share her view and indeed I am no fan of PMB either. I think Nigeria deserves a better leader than either of the two(PMB & Atiku).
I also reject the idea that we can't produce a better leader outside the two leading political parties.

My wedding will about 10years soon, when I married my wife, she was about 29years old and a virgin.

So ,I hereby confirm to you from experience, it is possible. Don't join multitude to do evil. Do you know what?God will reward you if you do out of fear of God.

The first step visit for you to pray and be saved, or born again. Now this is an experiential and not a mental acceptance of Jesus as personal Lord and saviour.The can be achieved by sincerely confessing all your known sins to God one on one with God, be sincere with him,as you pray with all sincerity the spirit of God will start reminding you on what to confess , just surrender in repentance and faith that God will forgive you. As you do that, the spirit of God will witness with your spirit that you have be saved or born again. At this point you have a measure of the spirit of God
Following the above experience, you will ask God for sanctification. Jesus also praed for the sanctification of his disciples when he prayed, sanctified them through the truth, thy word is true. The experience will bring a greater joy to your soul than the first one, because it will remove the Adamic nature of sin from your lifeby uprooting to root of sin from your life.

It is after the above two experiences that you can pray and have geniue experience of Baptism of Holy Spirit. Now, you don't need to learn any new language or practice it. Just pray fervently and praise God in spirit and suddenly the spirit of God will descend upon you and you will speak in s language bring spoken on earth but never known by you before.

May the spirit of God explain it to you better. Please beware of false prophets that are out there teaching people how to speak in tongues. It is not scriptural.

Donald95:
Funny thing is this

White men don't give a damn about Culture or Religion and they keep on Waxing in all aspect

Black African Men value Religion and think through their Pastors and daddy G.O, in fact they believe they can't exist without culture and religion still, It is as if black African men were created by the davil while God slept.

Nna Na wah o

But when "whitemen" gets the rewards for rioutious lifestyles, you don't wanna share in their punishment? It's not all our practices that are inferior especially when morality is being discussed.
When they start dying because of hiv/aids you don't want it to happen here. So we should be proud to be morally sound and better and not try to use thier moral decadence as a yardstick.

Nigeria Police is just showing us a tip of what to expect should PMBwin second term. That is when people will know the excessive power of a Nigerian President.
For PMB it's election time, let's see if you want to stifle opposition, what GEJ didn't do to APC? We are watching and the international community as well.
To PDP, don't hide under the guise of opposition to cause unrest. Nigeria is greater than all your combined political ambitions put together. Now, that's is where I respect GEJ despite his naiveness.

Nigeria Police we expect nothing less than professionalusm in your conducts. Don't give independent minded Nigerian the impression that you favour APC than PDP. That is where the IGP need to come out clean. Power or position is transient. History have a funny way of repeating itself.
God bless Nigeria.

Because of the similarity in the name of the church, Apostolic Faith Mission with The Apostolic Faith Church, I wish to make the clarification below because of thousands of Nairalanders that will get reading this thread.

The Apostolic Faith in Nigeria I know is a holiness church that abhors anything near fornication or adultery. Members also do not wear jweries nor thier Female member wear trousers. The Apostolic Faith Church that know gas it international headquarters in Portland Oregon.
However in some countries like Zimbabwe, I am aware there are different types of organisations answering Apostolic Faith. I therefore urge reader to note the differences and that from the pictures above, it is safe to conclude that the pastor above and the affected woman are not likely to be in the Apostolic Faith Church that has a presence in Nigeria.

Women! Women!! Women!!!.

Mr Smith I sympathize with you. I hope you can recover from the emotional trauma and be able to trus a woman once again in your life time.

RockHard:
The truth is that the Saraki/Dogara blunder may turn out to be the biggest in the history of Nigeria politics that might even end up culminating in Buhari's reelection loss. Those two shouldn't have been allowed to retain their seats in defiance against their party for as long as they have. I think it's too late for APC to correct that blunder even, Oshiomohole's efforts notwithstanding.

Is APC president trying to say that Saraki and Dogara are the worst politicians that were in APC? Can he sincerely say Rotimi Amachi, Yahaya Bello ;Akeredolu Ale, Aminu Bello Masari, etc are better politicians because they are still with APC?
Please tell is to Oshimohole , declare to Lai Mohammed and blow it to PMB ; that Nigerians are now wiser and will not take propaganda anymore!

A union of the two will enrich the Nigerian Controversy News Airwaves. Then news like: Tonto Dikeh-Dino denies fighting with ex- senator Dino Melaye" etc

BabaO2:
What is really the big deal about nysc, why being unnecessarily petty. It is a cheating and reckless victimisation on nothing serious. If I had my way or something more rewarding for that nysc year, I wouldn't have served. So in PDP's mind now, Davido is serving? Did iweala, Saraki and children of the rich do nysc in this nation?

I must confess that I am on of Kemi Adeosun's fans and I wish she was not a victim of this issue, but it happened and it's the law, there is no two way about it. Why we can assume from her resignation letter that Kemi fell victim of fraudulent associates trusted to help her comply with the law, what can anyone say in defence of this proud lawyer who is too arrogant to serve his country as prescribed by the law. The best thing PMB can do to help him is to ask him to resign quietly and go back to his village like they did for Babachir Lawal and Kemi. Is it not the same man that was accused of taking bribe sometimes ago?

The time is up Alhaji Shittu, no more opportunities to deceive Nigerians, bit even in Oyo State.

Ategberoson:
congrats to Mrs zainab


thunder fire any southerners that cry about her recognition as the substantial minister of finance. buhari doesn't like Southerner, he appointed a Southerner that had no political building as minister of finance, these foolish people pressure her to resign, these foolish people will still come cry here on him appointing northerners

you think if this zainab a northerner is found with a certificate scandal, she will be relieved of her work? she will be protected, they guide themselves regardless of whatsoever noise the so called exposed southerner say

Exactly my point o. The painful thing is that many Yoruba youths are still following PMB blindly because Tinubu ask them to support him. This problem of unity in Yoruba land is one of the greatest set back for this country. Now the Yoruba should get ready to lick thier wound. Kemi is not and cannot be the looser. El-Rufai keep teaching politics 101.

This Luarenta Onoche should better go and look for another job to do. The damage PMB Governmt has done to this country is millions times worse than any error on the part of Fayose.

You have the boldness to tell us not to allow someone that wrote EFCC of his readiness to be investigated to escape? If I may ask you and your entire team, how was Maina able to escape? What have your done about Babachir Lawal? We know and remember very vividly what you did to the NHIS boss sacked by the Minister of Health on ground of corruption? You restored Him?

You will be surprised to know that we Nigerian that campaigned against GEJ in your favour will raise against your re-election.