₦airaland Forum

lacedup:
Dahs y dey invented mistresses

hahahaha. U just changed my mood to laughter! U badt gan

demelza:
How can one even date someone in the same compound??
Jeez!

I wonder oh! People should get wise about relationships.

Leez:
Dude dnt know if its true but if it is then I'm sorry to say your dad didn't act like a true igbo man @ all
No igbo man I repeat no igbo man leaves his wife to take the fall for him.
An average igbo man will die for his family talkless of an ANAMBRA man!

that's "unanambrarian" like u said. Maybe the man thought they won't arrest her because of her gender, wrong move.

SARS awkuzu is the worst place to have problem with in anambra.,so full of human right abuse and extra-judicial killings.
They even beat up lawyers who visit their station to bail a very notorious detained client.
My advice is that the OP should get down to Anambra state,get a lawyer,known and with guts(this is important), file a case under the fundamental human right provisions at the federal high court(the states are on strike), secure the moms bail first, have a financial expert handy to negotiate the loan and know exactly how much is owed and pay it off(you can't evade the loan), then pursue the fundamental human right case till conclusion...to recover damages for breach.

But my 6th sense tells me that the action of the bank was their last resort,after all means has failed.
Don't expect everybody to be a gentleman.
But it has been held that police(SARS inclusive) are not statutory debt collectors.

Nigerians sef! Its not about APC Or PDP.
Its deeper than party affiliation
Its our national conscience that's at stake.

I have contacts for locally made female undies.
Call 08035590702

I wish others will learn from him.
That's integrity speaking.

The only plausible reason for postponement is the adequate distribution of the PVC.
Other reasons are born out of fear...which we are good at,naturally in Naija.

There is something sinister about GMB

What should make us think:
1: what was his attitude to the onslaught against BH?
2: what he had to say about Gen. Abacha's regime
3: did he show any remorse for the political somersault of 1983,ending our nascent democracy?
4: what was his reply to invitation for reconciliation at the oputa's panel?
5: what has been his religious stance of voting along religious line?
6: what was his stance in the certificate saga, keeping us in abeyance?
7: what was his stance toward a democratic debate, we might as well attend a primary school debate if we care?
8: what was, and has been his stance toward free press, we are all getting sued for teaching people history?
HOW DEMOCRATIC AND CIVILIZED HAS. THIS MAN BEEN SO FAR?

Am not surprised,he hasn't been in govt all these while. It a matter of border control,not a matter of ban. That where we are.

whizpet:
Jonathan should know that Nigerians are sick and tired of his Government. Only God saves him from being bomb 2dai #VoteBuhari come february 14.

keep quiet.

Since they no longer teach history in our secondary schools,AIT decided to do us a favour.
No one can change,obliterate or misquote history,it has a way of uncanny survival.
Deal with it!!!!

Most ethnic warlords and foot soldiers are issuing the same war threat in different ways.
I have always criticised the governmental impetus given to these CRIMINALS who contribute nothing to the polity,and are paid for solving the problem they created.
I also have angst against some of our northern hooligans who sees every southerner in the North as an infidel. And they are gearing up too like their fellow criminals in the creeks.
They show our level of civilization.

OrlandoOwoh:
Why should any candidate be pressurized to publish his certificate?

section 141(1)g CFRN

If this is true,I will just say that this man shouldn't have seen untimely death if wisdom has been applied in handling this matter. He was placed,by unwise move,in the eye of a national storm.
Gmb should have shown his result at the onset of this saga,or should have sorted himself out behind doors before making that public statement last week.
But when he discovered that the certificate was not with the Military,he made a statement that he has written to the school to make it available,thus all machinery planned against compromising the military was now propelled against that powerless man.
RIP sir,you served your nation.

Militants = government sponsored criminals.
If ur fears comes to pass,gmb will deal with you people how gej would have dealt with BH

Unemployment has caused a lot in this country.
That hippo is listed among endangered species under our laws.
But we the best excuse for lawlessness and indiscipline in Nigeria is SURVIVAL. they are proud in ignorance to have reduced the number of a rare specie in Nigeria.

Good article. With little or no sentiment.
We need objective electorates

To all APC apologist.
Its easier to throw stones and find fault.
Its also harder to predict the unknown.
What are GMB's democratic antecedents?

Bayswater:
Thank God we also had people that were not only around in that time but also had good knowledge of history. Ben Gbulie's account is quite plain and honest. You might want to write your own book to tell us the true story.
Pa Eziachi, please stop re-arranging history. The military had always favored the north, it is a fact seen physically and known to all; it is no myth.

Selling half-truths to people on nairaland all in the name of history is frowned upon, please desist from such acts. Seun, please note.

my dear,since this latest gmb attempt at president, history has changed so much that Nigeria looks like the Russia after Lenin. So much changes in our history just to sell this man to us.
History has always been alien to our curriculum that its now distorted at will...even by people who should be the custodian.

MarkMiwerds:
Hebrews does not say Abram paid tithes. He gave a temth of the spoils.

Sorry, but in the absense of any Biblical text to prove otherwise, I have to believe that the Historical artifacts reveal the reason Abram gave tithes to Melchizedek was because of the customs of that period of time.

ok.
Hebrews 7 vs 6 puts it beyond doubt that what abram paid to the king of salem was his tithe.
Also, verse 8 and 9 also makes us understand that in the way israelites paid tithe to the levites,so also had abram paid for himself and his offsprings yet unborn ie the levites. The same reason and purpose.
I must now say that the concept was before the law recognised.

MarkMiwerds:
again, Scripture proves you to be incorrect . Notice:

Genesis 14:22 (KJV) 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Genesis 14:23 (KJV) 23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

Genesis 14:24 (KJV) 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

Abram said he would not take any of the spoils as his own, AND,he would not take any of Bera's recovered spoils either. He only implored that the king give shares to Aner, Eshcol & Mamre. None of it was for him at all.

The text reveals Abram gave the tithe. He did not pay it. There is absolutely nothing in the chapter, nor in Hebrews 7 to indicate it as something owed. The text also reveals that the tithe was given PRIOR TO Abram's speaking to Bera, not after.

Historical research uncovers key information as to why Abram may have given those tithes to Melchizedek.

An Oxford Professor by the name of G. Maspero wrote an interesting book at the torn of the twentieth century AD. That book is called, "The Struggle of Nations". In it, one chapter gives an account of his speaking with the curator at the British Museum. The museum had recently acquired two clay tablets with cuneiform etchings on them.

The etchings show ancient Babylonians and Assyrians tithing of war spoils to their kings.

Pagans tithing war spoils. Isn't it interesting that, under the Mosaic Law God did not require tithes of war spoils, but that He required far, far less from war spoils? But back to the clay tablets and what significant role they may have in revealing Abram's motives for giving that tithe.

The clay tablets, according to Charles Pinches, the curator, were dated to 2200 BC. That's 287 years prior to Abram's mmeting Melchizedek in the Valley of Chaveh. Again, the dating of these tablets is important as we are about to find out.

The Bible discloses to the reader that Abram was from Ur of the Chaldees... a Babylonian country. Abram was a Hebrew familiar with the custom of the Chaldeeans. He would have known it was customary to give a tenth of war spoils to kings. Thus, his honoring Melchizedek with the tenth of the spoils may have been due to custom he was well acquainted with.

Abram's tithe appears to have been voluntary and due to pagan custom. There is no indication in the Word of God that any man prior to Abram gave tithes of war spoils or anything else. So, Biblical texts and Historical records would tell us that Abram tithed to the king Melchizedek simply due to the pagan customs he was familiar with.

As to your argument that it is the penalty that we are not under, I submit to you that it is noy only the penalty, but the Lawas well. Again, Acts 21 clearly has James saying they gave no commandment for the Gentile Believers to keep the Mosaic Law. How are we required to keep a Law that we were never commanded to keep?

good research that was.
If abram's tithe was out of pagan inclination,the writer of hebrews wouldn't have made any sense out of it,cause it wasn't to God. So I don't follow the line that its a pagan doctrine among the chaldeans that abram was keeping. He was paying it to God,there were other kings around,but he chose that of salem. He feared God.
Also the history line you drew hasn't refuted that abram paid tithe,it only tried to bring a different motive to it,which is ungodly and God wouldn't have wanted his people to practice.
Any doubt about genesis will meet a better explanation in hebrews,where the writer showed us that abram paid even for himself and those in his loins. A good analysis of hebrews will tell us better.

MarkMiwerds:
Abram's tithe was not of his own property. He had promised God that he would not keep any of the spoils as his own property.

Also, while it is true that he gave that tithe to a king that represented the Most High God, it is equally true that though it was a tithe, it was not God's holy tithes. God said His holy tithes were agricultural. Abram's tithe was both agricultural and clothing.

We must also take into account that the story as related in Genesis is descriptive, not prescriptive.

he,abram rather informed the king of sodom that he would not that anything that formally belong to sodom before the war,so that it won't seem abram became rich on their expense(integrity).
All others were for him and his army cum servants.
After that part,he paid his tithe of the remaining spoils of war.
Differentiating between tithe as demanded of the israelites and what abram did on the point of WHAT WAS GIVEN as tithe has to consider the fruit of the substance,what wealth is measured in, cash crop,animals,spoils of war,money, depending on the epoch.
You may say the story is descriptive,but the bottomline was that he paid tithe and understood the concept even before the laws.
What has changed so far is the threat of punishment attached to the concept,cos we are in a different dispensation.

MarkMiwerds:
We do not have to keep the Law. It was for Israel alone.

While some things in the Law seem to be repeated in the Pauline epistles, that does not mean we are to keep the Law. That which is written in the epistles is in a completely different jurisdiction.

Let me give you an example. I was born in Tripoli, Libya. There were laws there that my parents had to observe. When mother moved after my dad's death, the laws of Tripoli did not follow her. We lived in an entirely new jurisdiction. If I stole something here, I would not be tried by the laws of Tripoli. I would be charged under the laws where I live.

Now, as long as I remain where I am, I will not be required to live by the Laws of Tripoli. However, if I should happen to move back to Tripoli, I will be subject to its laws.

It is the same regarding those ordinances of the Old Testament. If I choose to abide in the House of the Law, I am subject to, not just any law I choose to my liking, but to all the Laws cset forth for the residents thereof. If i choose to obey the tithe command, I must obey all other commands that apply to that jurisdiction. This would include animal sacrifices, stoning of disobedient children, not wearing garments that have two different fabrics in the weave, a battlement on my roof, etc..

James said in Acts 21 that there is no command given to Gentiles to keep the Law.Paul said in Romans 4 that we are not under the Law. He said in Romans 7 that it is comparable to adultery to go to the house of the Law. Galatians 3, foolish to subject ourselves to the Law. In 1 Timothy 1, the Law is not for the righteous.

Over and over, in more than the above examples, we are shown that we are not to go under that old system. Best to focus on Christ, and His finished Work.

I am getting you now.
But you have to exclude tithe from the dictates of the law,cos abraham before the law paid tithe to the king of salem,this is in genesis as well as hebrew.
It seems the law added a punishment to the concept. Now that we are under a new dispensation of grace,the addition of the law is to be done away with,that's the threat of punishment introduced by the mosaic law.
I love your analogy of tripoli and its laws

MarkMiwerds:
romans 7 says we who are married to the One who rose from the dead have no business in the Law. It is comparable to adultery. Galatians says it is foolish to submit to the Law. 1 Timothy says the Law is for the ungodly and unrighteous.

We who have trusted Christ are not unrighteous, for we are clothed in His righteousness.

If you love the Lord with all heart, soul and mind, and you love your neighbor as you do yourself, why do you need the Law? We are not told to look to the Law. We are to look to the Lord, walking in the Spirit. For in so doing, the lusts of the flesh will not be yielded to.

it does seem we haven't understood each other.
What I mean is that those rules and regulations we call the laws of moses are just what we are doing today,example,obeying ur parents,even paul charged the galatians thus. If u say we live under the grace,I concur,but to say that we need not keep the law,I disagree.
Please read matthew 5 vs 17 - 20.
Jesus told us the seriousness of those laws.

Education is known through how one presents his thought succinctly in words.
This what we call ISSUE BASED CAMPAIGN.
No glaring insult like Fayose's
I can't wait for the presidential debate.

Many questions to ask.
What is the content of this letter of recommendation?
Why wasn't he given a certificate instead?
Can anybody else(say a village chief) write such letter for him and it will be accepted?
Was a recommendation the criteria needed for admission into the then "NDA"?
Was his admission based only on that said letter?
Did he subsequently submit any other document after that of his principals letter?
Can another person get admission with just a letter from a principal?
Or was it the age long federal character AKA quota system at work?

If the foundation is shaken,what will the righteous do?

egift:
MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in Daura, Katsina State, on 17 December 1942

Education
Attended Primary School in Daura and Mai’adua, 1948-1952
Attended Katsina Model School in 1953 and Katsina Provincial Secondary School (now Government College Katsina) from 1956-1961.
Joined the then Nigerian Military Training School, Kaduna in 1963.
Attended Officer’s Cadet School in Aldershot (United Kingdom), October 1963
Attended Platoon Commanders’ Course at the Nigerian Military College, Kaduna, 1964
Attended the Mechanical Transport Officer’s Course at the Army Mechanical Transport School in Borden (United Kingdom) 1965
Studied at the Defence Services’ Staff College, Wellington (India), 1973
Attended the United States Army War College, June 1979 to June 1980.

Professional Achievements
Platoon Commander, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 1963-1964;
Mechanical Transport Officer, Lagos Garrison, 1964-1965;
Transport Company Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1965-1966;
Battalion Adjutant/Commander, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1966-1967;
Brigade Major, 2nd Sector, 1st Infantry Division, April to July, 1967;
Brigade Major, 3rd Infantry Division, August 1967 – October 1968;
Acting Commander, 4th Sector, 1st Division, November 1968 – February 1970;
Commander, 31st Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, February 1970 – June 1971;
Assistant Adjutant-General, 1st Infantry Division Headquarters, July 1971 – December 1972;
Colonel, General Staff, 3rd Infantry Division Headquarters, January 1974 – September 1974;
Acting Director Supply and Transport, Nigeria Army Corps Headquarters, September 1974 – July 1975;
Military Governor, North Eastern State of Nigeria, August 1975 – March 1976;
Federal Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, March 1976 – June 1978;
Chairman, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, June 1978 – July 1978;
Military Secretary, Army Headquarters, July 1978 – June 1979;
Member, Supreme Military Council, July 1978 – June 1979;
General Officer Commanding, 4th Infantry Division, August 1980 – January 1981;
General Officer Commanding, 3rd Armored Division, November 1981 – December 1983;
Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, December 1983 – August 1985.
Executive Chairman of the Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund (PTF), 21 March 1995 – May 1999.

Awards and Medals
GCFR: Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
DSM: Defence Service Medal
NSM: National Service Medal
GSM: General Service Medal
LSGCM: Loyal Service and Good Conduct Medal
FSS: Forces Service Star
CM: The Congo Medal

Honorary Doctorate Degrees
10 December 1994: Honorary Doctor of Science degree (honoris causa) conferred on Buhari by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
21 December 1996: Honorary Doctor of Letters degree (honoris causa) conferred on Buhari by the University of Calabar.
6 June 1998: Honorary Doctor of Law degree (honoris causa) conferred on Buhari by Benue State University.

SOURCE: http://ad76.com/2014/12/19/muhammadu-buharis-curriculum-vitae/

impressive! I ve got to guide my waec jealously henceforth.
You can't place something on nothing and expect it to stand.
People should watch out for shaky foundations in their life. It has a way of catching up with us,somehow.

The reason why I don't pay tithe is that Jesus described in the book of matthew the weightier matters of the kingdom- love,holiness,judgement,righteousness etc, but specifically mentioned tithe and offering as not among the above or in their class.
Some pastors may say the opposite of the above,like telling thieves and fornicators to bring in their tithe and offering into Gods storehouse. Its good but its better if its done when one has fulfilled the major attributes of christian life.
No wonder jesus said that an offering is useless when the giver has ought against his neighbour. God even detest the sacrifice of fools,who thought that they can give their way into heaven,as they do in Nigerian politics.
Let us dis-emphasis the hype on tithe and focus on the more important matters.
So offering,tithe and other gift will flow naturally,not out of compassion or biblical threat,when we have passed the test of the weightier matters.

JUBILEE2000:
if Christ has fulfilled the law why keep it? It is hypocrisy for anyone to keep the part of the law that deals with finances alone and leave the rest. If u must pay tithe u must also stone the adulterer

what I mean is that people that pay tithe also keep the 10commandments,and other parts of the laws of moses. If we should stop paying tithe because its the law,then we might as well stop practicing all the dictates of that law,the commandments inclusive.
When Christ said he is the fulfillment of the law,I take it to mean that he came as was prophesied by the law n prophet as the messaih that will bring down Gods grace enabling us to keep the law without eye service,as people did before.
What do u think?

MarkMiwerds:
I wrote this article yesterday afternoon...

What Is Your Problem?
by Ronald W Robey

Do you tithe 10% of your income to your local Church? Have you “tithed” faithfully for several years and not seen the results that you expected? The Preacher promised you God would “rebuke the devourer” if you would just obey the command to tithe, and yet, you still experience many health problems? Your garden doesn't seem to flourish as well as it should?

Let me ask….

Would you consider not tithing 10% of your income to your Church? Believe it or not, those health problems may be directly connected to your tithing. Your vegetation not flourishing may be directly related to your tithing. Notice:

Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

The above verse, and pretty much the whole chapter beginning at verse 14, is God’s pronouncement of the curses that He gave to the children of Israel for disobedience to His Law. Notice the above verse says the LORD would place a botch (skin cancer) in the knees and legs, even on the whole body because of disobedience to the Law that He handed down to Moses for the children of Israel. And not just botches, but madness, (insanity) blindness, and astonishment of the heart. (confusion)

You may say, “Yes, but I am not under the Law. I am under Grace. Those illnesses and curses cannot apply to me.”

Oh really? Have you considered the following verse?

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Stop and think for a moment. Is not the command to tithe a command in the Mosaic Law? Are you not attempting to keep that one command written in the Law?

But though you attempt to obey God's command to tithe, the fact is, you fail miserably... even when you give 10% of your money faithfully to your local pastor.

Notice the command concerning God's holy tithes. Read it carefully and prayerfully...

Leviticus 27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
Leviticus 27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
Leviticus 27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

The answer is obvious. It is indeed in the Mosaic Law. There is no command for tithes prior to the Mosaic Law being handed down to Moses. Nor is there a command to tithe after the destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 70.

And the Word of God says if you wish to be under the Law, you must keep the whole Law. (see Gal. 3:10 above) Now realize this...

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.


When you heard your pastor preach that Malachi 3:8-10 is God command for you to tithe, and you yielded to that message, you placed yourself in the jurisdiction of the Mosaic Law, its blessings, and it’s curses included.

Package deal.

Now, you might think. “But I am tithing, so I am not breaking the Law. Therefore, the curses associated with breaking the Law cannot be applied to my situation.” Again, you would be wrong… for the following two reasons.

1. Galatians 3:10 above says if you place yourself under the Law, you are a debtor to do the whole Law…. not just tithing. You must obey all the commandments contained in the ordinances of the Mosaic Law if you submit to any one of those commandments.

2. James 2:10 states that if we offend in one point of the Law, we are guilty of all the Law. Again, it is a package deal. Even if you were not required to keep the other commandments contained in the ordinances of the Mosaic Law, and the only command you were required to keep was the tithe command, you have still failed miserably.

God said His holy tithes were to be agricultural, not money. (see Leviticus 27:30-33 above) Because you choose to place yourself under the jurisdiction of the Mosaic Law, you break the Law when you attempt to tithe money instead of agricultural produce and livestock as the Law commands.

Further, God said His tithe was to go to the Levites, widows, orphans and strangers dwelling in Canaan, (see Numbers 18:21-28; Deuteronomy 14:28-29) not to pastors of Church's on Gentile soil.

As you can see, it is possible that your skin cancer, your bad knees, your many health problems, may well be a result of your tithing. You have placed yourself under the Law and may be reaping the consequences of disobedience to that Law.

Might be a good time to read Deuteronomy 28 in its entirety to see if any of the other curses might apply to your current situation.

Uh-huh.

Oh, doctors may be able to treat the skin cancer. They may be able to do knee replacement as well. They may even be able to treat many other illnesses you have contracted. But at what cost? Money that your household could have used, money that your neighbor could have used, gone to doctors and hospitals instead.

But we have the Great Physician named Jesus Christ who also has the answer in His Word.

Get out of the house of the Law. You don’t belong there. (Romans 7:1-4) You are married to the One who rose from the dead… act like it! Stop attempting to obey a Law that was never meant for you to obey.(Psalm 147:19-20 )

As long as you remain unfaithful to God, you will remain in His sore displeasure.

It’s either the Law, or it’s Grace. You must choose which you want to live under. But, you cannot have the best of both worlds. In the Law, there is no “best”. The Law brings death because man is unable to keep it in its entirety. Grace brings life and liberty to those to whom God has bestowed it upon.

In Malachi, the entire nation of Israel was under the curse because of the actions of the Priests. Deuteronomy 28 reveals that family and nation alike will be affected by disobedience to the Law.

The Law was never meant for us. Who has bewitched you into placing yourself in its jurisdiction. Make your way to the nearest exit as quickly as possible.

Walk in Grace.

what's ur opinion on the commandments,are they also the laws we shouldn't be under?
Jesus Christ instructed the young rich ruler to keep all the laws,which he replied that he has kept up from his youth.
He also said he hasn't come to abolish the law but to fulfil it.
Are the laws of Moses now a sin under the grace dispensation?