₦airaland Forum

Macelliot:
That's an Igbo man for you. They think far..

LeksideOLM:
I want to improve my English.
I do speak good english but makes little mistakes which embarrass me sometimes.

I want to improve but don't know how.
I was brought up with Pure Yoruba Dialect.

ElPadrino33:
I want to say something but I don't want to say it

JMAN05:
No, it wasn't a reply to my comments above. Reply to my post one by one as I did yours.

JMAN05:
No, it wasn't a reply to my comments above. Reply to my post one by one as I did yours.

JMAN05:
Reply to my comment oga

laurel03:
Ajimobi is just a muslim because of politics... his wife and children are christians... dt man na freethinker

EponOjuku:
In the SW, we are Yorubas first before our religions. It takes a highly evolved brain to understand this which explains why illiterate ipod dunces are unable to understand as they come from a long lineage of poorly evolved monkeys.

To clear your foolishness,

State Governor Religion
Lagos Ambode Christian
Ogun Amosun Muslim
Oyo Ajimobi Christian
Osun Aregbesola Muslim
Ondo Akeredoku Christian
Ekiti Fayose Christian

Muslims 2
Christians 4

I hope you can all see that the average Potopoto youth inherited foolishness and idiocy from both parents. Their fathers handed down stupidity like family property.

nototribalist:
He looks like an Afonja.

madridguy:
Why always Ejigbo area?

Demmzy15:
See grammar, how can you know about Shariah when you can't even speak correct English?



Most newscasters in AlJazeera aren't Muslims, so why force them to wear hijab?



I agree



Is your child a Muslim? No one imposed Arabic and Islamic studies on them



It didn't end during 1st WW, 2nd WW and definitely not in 3rd WW

BenzEne1:
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And the imposition of Christian study is okay ?

Omooba77:
I discovered that many Youth go to clubs from Friday night till Sunday morning, parting, drinking and fornicating heavily. Yet on Sundays; many of them are our choirs, ushers, protocols and Sunday school Teachers. Should this be so; Many of us are so embedded with the World forgeting 1 John 2:14-16

illitrate:
Allahuakbar.

SalamRushdie:
Oga that your Gulfstream G550 jet is the epitome of safety and technology when it comes to civil aviation aircraft, dem never born the turbulence wey go fit bring G550 down so stop over exaggerating.. there are 500 G55O in currently in service and non has ever crashed so stop making it look like your presence on board saved the jet No it was purely superior aviation technology of the G550 at work

Emusan:
I've downloaded the book and I'll soon begin to share what I read.

But no bi small work oooo over 400 pages :-/ :-/

paulGrundy:
Questioning Ed Dunlap

Mr. Franz describes how his friend Edward Dunlap dealt with the inquisition directed toward him.

On page 336 Mr. Franz writes:

"The judicial committee wanted to know if he [Edward Dunlap] would talk to anyone else on these points. He replied that he had no intention of 'campaigning' among the brothers. But he said that if persons came to him privately seeking help and he could direct them to the Scriptures for the answers to their question, he would do so, would feel an obligation to help them.

"In all likelihood, this was the determinative factor [in Mr. Dunlap's disfellowship]. Such freedom of private Scriptural discussion and expression was not acceptable, was viewed as heretical, as dangerously disruptive."

Mr. Franz quotes committee members as saying to Mr. Dunlap:

"Wait on the organization . . . Who knows? Perhaps five years from now many or all of these things you are saying will be published and taught."
Mr. Franz asks rhetorical questions.

If the judicial committee was willing to accept the possibility that the organization's teachings on these points might be no more solid and enduring than that, how could they possibly use them as the basis for deciding whether this man was a loyal servant of God or an apostate?
If they advised Mr. Dunlap to wait five years to see if these teachings might change, why couldn't the committee postpone any judicial action toward a man who had given half a century of service to the organization?
Mr. Franz writes about the justification to their approach:

"The logic of such an approach can be understood only if one accepts and embraces the premise that an individual's interests--including his good name, his hard-earned reputation, his years of life spent in service--are all expendable if they interfere with an organization's objectives."

In May 1980 the Governing Body disfellowshipped 69-year-old Ed Dunlap. He moved to Oklahoma City and supported himself and his wife by hanging wallpaper. He died Sept. 1, 1999, at the age of 88.

Believing differently

On page 338 Mr. Franz writes:

"There is an old expression, 'An iron hand in a velvet glove.' I do not believe that the events of the spring of 1980 produced the hardhandedness manifested by the authority structure. I believe the hardness was already there, that history shows it was. What took place in the spring of 1980 merely caused the velvet glove to be removed, exposing the unyielding hardness underneath."

On Sept. 1, 1980, The Watchtower, the flagship magazine of the Jehovah's Witnesses, ran an article under the heading "Protecting the Flock." That article is reproduced on pages 341-342 of Mr. Franz's book.

On page 342 Mr. Franz summarizes the letter:

"The letter represents an official policy. It actually says that a person's believing--not promoting, but simply believing--something that differs from the teachings of the organization is grounds for taking judicial action against him as an 'apostate'!"

Mr. Franz mentions that this writing of the policy did not raise much dust among Jehovah's Witness.

On pages 344-345 he writes:

"It is the concept of 'the organization' that produces this [lack of response]. That concept creates the belief that, to all intents and purposes, whatever the organization speaks, it is as if God Himself were speaking . . ."
Mr. Franz does mention that, in spite of apparent evidence to the contrary, many Witnesses are thinking people.

Continuing on page 345:

"True, there are many thinking Witnesses who are repelled by such blatant expressions of blind faith. Yet most are still willing to conform, even to take 'judicial action' against any who express doubts about the Society's interpretations. Why?"
Here is a portion of his response:

". . . Based on my own experience among them, I believe that they are, in effect, the captives of a concept . . ."

As I quoted earlier from page 346, the organization seems to take on a life of its own that supersedes the actions of any individual. Plus, when the organization is viewed as God's chosen instrument, the responsibility for all decisions and actions--however apparently sensible or absurd--is passed on to God.

Disfellowshipped on a technicality

According to Mr. Franz, some of the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses were involved in setting in motion the procedures to disfellowship him.

On Nov. 6, 1981, the judicial committee wrote him a letter to set up a meeting to discuss his "continued association with a person disassociated from the congregation."

Mr. Franz met with the committee on Wednesday, Nov. 25.

After a series of letters back and forth, he wrote a letter on Dec. 23, 1981, informing committee members that he was dropping his appeal of their decision to disfellowship him.

Mr. Franz gives his opinion that there were other reasons for his disfellowship than having "one meal with Peter Gregerson."

On page 376 he writes:

"Do I personally believe that this was the true reason for their taking the action they did? No. I believe it was simply a technicality used to achieve an objective. The end justified the means in their minds. That an organization would make use of a technicality of such pettiness, to my mind betrays a remarkably low standard for conduct and a great insecurity."

Based on his experience in the organization, Mr. Franz offers this opinion about his disfellowship:

". . . My personal belief is that it was considered 'advantageous' that I be disfellowshiped so as to eliminate what they considered a 'threat' . . . "

He writes about the committee's apparent insecurity.

He writes:

". . . If so, then this too, I think, reveals a very great sense of insecurity--particularly so for a worldwide organization that claims to be God's chosen instrument, backed up by the Sovereign power of the universe, the reigning King's appointee as supervisor of all His earthly interests. This would surely not be the action of an organization fully at ease with its own teachings, calmly confident that what it presents is truth, solidly supported by God's Word."
Mr. Franz mentions the leadership's lack of confidence in the membership.

He writes:

"Nor is it the action of an organization having genuine confidence in its body of adherents, confidence that the instruction and training given have produced mature Christian men and women who do not need some maternal magisterium to prescribe what they shall read, discuss or think about, but who are instead capable of discerning for themselves between truth and error, through their knowledge of the Word of God.
"The action is typical, however, of many religious organizations of the past, all the way back to the first century, organizations that felt a compelling need to eliminate anything that, in their view, threatened to diminish their authority over others."

laudate:
I don't think we are the wrong people. If you go to foreign countries and you see the size of projects, cases and establishments that are manned by qualified Nigerians abroad, you would marvel. Yet, everything works well, with those Nigerians at the helm. Like MadCow1 said: "It is all about planning and execution." Until we imbibe the right methods of execution, we would not go anywhere.

Ironically, the largest gas processing plant in Nigeria today is situated inside Akwa Ibom. The $600 million USD or N90 billion naira gas processing facility located at Uquo in Akwa Ibom State, is owned by Accugas Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of indigenous company Seven Energy International Limited headquartered in Lagos, and London. The gas plant commenced gas deliveries in early 2014 to the 190 megawatts (MW) Ibom Power Station.

So why was it so difficult to connect the hospital to a stable source of electricity? I still do not get it, o!

As for personnel, there are more than enough well-qualified doctors within Nigeria to go round that hospital, if only the recruitment process had been properly done. There would have been no need for foreigners to be resident there 24x7, if the govt authorities had put on their thinking caps.

In most private hospitals, surgeries or specialised medical care is booked over a particular period, and patient appointments are programmed back-to-back within that specific time frame, so that any invited foreign-based medical expert can handle all the cases within a scheduled period, and then fly back to his base. Some private hospitals do this when they have to conduct heart or kidney transplants for multiple patients. Such block bookings save time, cost and resources. The only downside might be the waiting period for some patients.

In many hospitals abroad, the chief executive officer or most senior hospital administrator is NOT a medical doctor, but a trained hospital manager or administrator whose function is to coordinate the medical officers' schedules, pool resources, supervise administration, facilities and services including Logistics, IT, and Legal departments, in addition to reviewing the hospital's cost profile and managing revenue accruing to the hospital. Most doctors I have met may be gifted clinicians, but more often than not, their administrative skills are a mess.