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Abagworo: Give him a four year score card. I've not felt much of the impact from FG in Rivers State. The 18hours power I'm enjoying is courtesy Rivers government, the road I travel on whuch is PH-Owerri is work of Rivers government. East-west road and Aba express are the worst major roads in Rivers State. A journey from Port-Harcourt to Obigbo which is 5km takes up to 4 hours. Choba to Eleme is not a better story.

[b]Bros I salute you!


I'm sorry o! But how does the OP even begin to compare a state with a Country?!

Rwanda has the powers to do whatever they like... Amaechi cant even import 2 Helicopters into Nigeria without FG backing..
This thread is as senseless as the Poster that started it.. Does the OP think that Rwanda got there in 6 years?!
The FG can up and take any land they want under the Land Use act... Amaechi need to compensate, demolish, reclaim before new constructions begin.. ALl these cost money and time (Time spent in court battling aggrieved residents)..

Like how does the Moronic Op begin to compare Abuja & Lagos with Rivers State?!

Lagos Island belongs to Fashola and the F.G to do with as they please... Over 85% of Rivers State lands are tribal.. The amount of money pumped into Lagos and Abuja in the history of Nigeria, no other state in the federation has seen such.. Look at the Ports in Nigeria.. Calabar Port + Port Harcourt Port does not see as much action in a year as Tin Can or Apapa sees in 6 months.. Rivers State Airport + Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport + Owerri Airport + Akanu Ibaim all put together still dont get as much air action as Lagos sees in half a year.. Like what the hell are even comparing here sef?!

And the agric fowl wants to talk about Rivers State?! The FG wouldnt even allow River State to distribute its own generated light.. The FG would divert vessels to Rivers and Calabar... The FG still makes NIgerians to fly to Lagos to travel abroad.. Even Abuja sef does not see the type of Action Lagos sees.. And lagos didnt get there all on its own o!!




The OP is a person..


Yes I said it!!

If you split Nigeria into 3 parts today.. Make Ebonyi the Capital of Biafra, Make Bayelsa the Capital of the SOUTH-SOUTH Country and make Borno the Capital or the North.. Developments in these 3 Capital cities will still be greater than the rest... Reason being that they are the Capital. The Seat of Government is there, the money is there.. Especially if they run the same useless style of Government Nigeria runs that keeps all the Power in the centre..

Rwanda... Thats the capital the Anuofia showed us.. Let him show us the other areas of Rwanda far from the capital and lets compare..




The Mod that Front Paged this Useless thread should also go for a head check-up...


Its like comparing Bayelsa to New York.. [/b]

onila: its sad that I wont be able to show and teach my children abt my culture again
I grew up playing with masquerades, going to the village every christmas

the average Nigerian child that grew up in the urban areas cant speak their language any longer

now everything is considered evil

this modern life not sweet at all . .but i have to follow the new world, to be on the safe side

African culture died a long time ago..

What we have now is a mordernised version of what our traditions and cultures used to be. I'm not talking about bum shorts and mini skirts o.. I'm talking about our core traditions and beliefs.. Go look at traditional weddings today and you'll see hat I'm saying. Soon people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between traditional weddings and church weddings.

76 things banned in the book of leviticus and their punishment


.       Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11) [Normal penalty.]

2.       Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13) [Normal penalty.]

3.       Eating fat (3:17) [That one's "a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live." All fat is to be saved for offerings to God. Normal penalty.]

4.       Eating blood (3:17) [Normal penalty]

5.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1) ["They will be held responsible."]

6.       Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1) [Which sounds like hearsay. At any rate, "they shall be held responsible."]

7.       Touching an unclean animal (5:2) [NIV translates this as touching "the carcass" of an unclean animal. So if Rover dies, or you're a worker in a pork plant, you're in trouble here. Normal penalty.]

8.       Carelessly making an oath (5:4) [Even if you don't realize you have. Normal penalty.]

9.       Deceiving a neighbour about something trusted to them (6:2) [Return the item and a 20% penalty, plus normal penalty.]

10.   Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3) [Return the item and a 20% penalty, plus normal penalty.]

11.   Bringing unauthorised fire before God (10:1) [God will smite you.]

12.   Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6) ["You will die" and God will be angry at everyone. May only apply to the priesthood.]

13.   Tearing your clothes (10:6) ["You will die" and God will be angry at everyone. May only apply to the priesthood.]

14.   Drinking alcohol in holy places (bit of a problem for Catholics, this ‘un) (10:9) ["You will die." May only apply to the priesthood.]

15.   Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7) ["You will be unclean.]

16.   Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11: ["You will be unclean."]

17.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12) ["You will be unclean."]

18.   Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19) ["You will be unclean."]

19.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22) ["You will be unclean."]

20.   Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (good news for cats) (11:27)  ["You will be unclean." Also applies to touching their carcasses.]

21.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29) ["You will be unclean."]

22.   Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42) ["You will be unclean."]

23.   Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4) [Actually, she's unclean a week, and then another 33 days. Then she has to offer up a sacrifice.]

24.   Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5) [Actually, she's unclean a week, and then another 66 days. Then she has to offer up a sacrifice.]

25.   Having sex with your mother (18:7) [The penalty for all the sexual sins in ch. 18 is that the participants are to be "cut off" from their people. Some have additional penalties mentioned below.]

26.   Having sex with your father’s wife (18: [In 20:11, both are to be put to death.]

27.   Having sex with your sister (18:9) [In 20:17, if you marry her, both are to be "publicly removed from their people"]

28.   Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)

29.   Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)

30.   Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13) [In 20:19, he will be held responsible for the dishonor.]

31.   Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14) [In 20:20, they are held responsible for the dishonor, "they will die childless"]

32.   Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15) [In 20:12, both are to be put to death.]

33.   Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16) [In 20:21, if you marry her, "they will be childless."]

34.   Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Clark) (18:17) [No specific penalty given, but per 20:14 if you marry both of them, all three of you are to be "burned in fire."]

35.   Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)

36.   Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19) [15:24 simply says the man will be considered unclean for 7 days. In 20:18, "Both of them are to be cut off from their people"]

37.   Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20) [In 20:10, both are to be put to death.]

38.   Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21) [In 20:2, the person is to be stoned to death.]

39.   Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22) [In 20:13, both are to be put to death.]

40.   Having sex with an animal (18:23) [In 20:15, both are to be killed.]

41.   Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4) [No penalty given.]

42.   Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9) [To be left for the poor. No penalty given.]

43.   Picking up grapes that have fallen in your  vineyard (19:10) [To be left for the poor. No penalty given.]

44.   Stealing (19:11) [No penalty given.]

45.   Lying (19:11) [No penalty given.]

46.   Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12) [No penalty given.]

47.   Defrauding your neighbour (19:13) [No penalty given.]

48.   Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (not well observed these days) (19:13) [No penalty given.]

49.   Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14) [No penalty given.]

50.   Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15) [No penalty given.]

51.   Spreading slander (19:16) [No penalty given.]

52.   Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16) [No penalty given.]

53.   Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18) [No penalty given.]

54.   Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19) [No penalty given.]

55.   Cross-breeding animals (19:19) [No penalty given.]

56.   Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19) [No penalty given.]

57.   Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20) ["Due punishment," but not death, just a ram for sacrifice.]

58.   Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23) [No penalty given. May only apply to fruit trees planted in Israel.]

59.   Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26) [No penalty, but in 20:6 they will be "cut off from their people" by God. In 20:27, they are to be stoned to death.]

60.   Trimming your beard (19:27) [No penalty given.]

61.   Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27) [No penalty given.]

62.   Getting tattoos (19:28) [No penalty given.]

63.   Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29) ["The land will turn to prostitution." No other penalty given.]

64.   Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31) [No penalty given.]

65.   Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32) [No penalty given.]

66.   Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born”  (19:33-34) [No penalty  given.]

67.   Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36) [No penalty given.]

68.   Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9) [Death, as noted.]

69.   Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13) [No penalty given.]

70.   Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11) [I.e., if you're a priest. No penalty given.]

71.   Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28) [May apply only to sacrificial animals. No penalty given.]

72.   Working on the Sabbath (23:3) [No penalty given.]

73.   Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14) [Death.]

74.   Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22) [Killing someone means death. Injuring someone mean punishment in kind. Killing or injuring another's animal means punishment in kind.]

75.   Selling land permanently (25:23) [No penalty given.]

76.   Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42) [No penalty given.]

It reeks of sheer hypocrisy to single out the pasage that talks about Tattoos in the old testament book of leviticus and ignore the other rules that the same leviticus talks about in the following passages..

So since we are listing sins and aborminable christian practices, how about we talk about sins like:

0. Homosexuality: “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” —Leviticus 20:13.

1.   Death penalty for using the Lord’s name in vain

“He who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him; the sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.” (Lev. 24:16)

2.   Prohibition against eating pork

“And the swine, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. Of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch; they are unclean to you.” (Lev. 11:7–

3.   Mandating of animal sacrifices

“If anyone sins unwittingly in any of the things which commanded not to be done, and does any one of them, if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer the sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to the Lord as a sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before the Lord. … And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys … and the priest shall burn them upon the altar…. (Lev. 4:1–10) 

[NOTE: The first several chapters of Leviticus are devoted to mandatory animal sacrifices, such as the wringing of turtledoves’ necks, the cutting open of goats and bulls, and the vivisection of female lambs, for various sins.]

4.   Death penalty for spiritualists

“A man or woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.” (Lev. 20:27)

5.   Human slavery sanctioned

“As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a Possession for ever.” (Lev. 25:44–46)

6.   Prohibition against eating fat

“It shall be a perpetual statute throughout Your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.” (Lev. 3:17)

7.   Forbidding of hair and beard trimming

“You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.” (Lev. 19:27)

8.   Prohibition against eating crab, clams, oysters

“Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. But anything in the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is an abomination to you. They shall remain an abomination to you; of their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall have in abomination. Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is an abomination to you.” (Lev. 11:9–12)

9.   Death penalty for adultery

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.” (Lev. 20:10)

 [Leviticus lists four other kinds of adultery for which the death penalty is also mandatory.]

10.  The profanity of disabled individuals

“For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or who has a mutilated face or a limb too long, or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand, or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or a man with a defect in his sights or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles; no man of the descendants of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the Lord’s offerings by fire; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God…He shall not come near the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries…” (Lev. 21:18–23)

11. Other prohibitions

“Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.” (Lev. 19:19)

Basically, you can't practice mixed farming or wear clothes made with multiple materials.









So why are you only focused on Tattoos?

I have it on good authority that no money was paid for his ransome..

I'm glad he was freed..

I think he may need to consider getting some serious security detail around him. I have always been amazed how he still moves about with not even a single police man.

Promhize: If u are lying, it will never be well with u. Idiot.

Because of NEPA light??

And if I'm telling the truth, is it okay for me to say 'it will not be well with you?'

Na wah for human beings o!

taharqa: What are you talking about?? Even in d USA, d SSS can under certain exceptional circumstances disobey d Orders of d President if they judge that his life is in grave danger and that Order wud aggravate d danger. Talkless of a 'mere' Gov in Nigeria...... Oh Lawd! Did I just comment on this

But...

The Nigerian Police Department is not the SSS and are not responsible for the security of the Governor. Infact, on the governors security detail, the Nigerian Police takes orders from the SSS.

So under what constitutional provision did the CP of Rivers State block the Governors convoy from taking a chosen route?

Let's all put aside our individual Political feelings and look at the constitution/Laws/DOA of each security outfit and find out who overstepped their boundaries..