₦airaland Forum

Mistakemaker:
What exactly is stopping Nigeria from having 24/7 electricity and making money form it as well as stabilising the economy?

Let's hear people's thoughts

It's obvious providing 24/7 is a no-brainer for Nigeria. We have both the resources and manpower.

Unfortunately, there are those profiting so much from electricity not working.
There are fuel merchants and generator importers especially the powers that be.

Once upon a time, telecomms was as bad as electricity but Obasanjo was able to find a middle ground with the powers that be while also profiting there of.

I personally have no issue with they making profit from it, but I believe they simply need the president to also reach a middle ground with them.

It's either that or those powers that be must be both exposed and executed as they would never be satisfied and would never let electricity work until some very tough and stringent decisions are made.

What's the asking price?

etokhana:
The Chairman of Sokoto State Ulama Forum of Izala, Sheikh Abubakar Usman Mabera has said any lawyer who defends the Kano State singer Yahaya Aminu Sharif recently convicted for blasphemy by a sharia court has renounced his Islamic faith.

Speaking in Sokoto at the weekend, the Islamic cleric affirmed that a competent sharia court in Kano has sentenced the Kano singer to death for blasphemy.

He noted that blasphemy in Islam is a capital punishment whose punishment is death, saying, “As a Muslim, the law applies to the singer.

The cleric who is also the Chief Imam of Malam Buhari Dan Shehu mosque in Sokoto called on Muslim lawyers to be careful in defending the convict, insisting,’ any lawyer who comes out to defend him has renounced his Islamic faith.

According to him, since a competent sharia court in Kano has established the fact that Sharif has insulted the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW), there is no way other than for him to subject himself to the punishment prescribed by Allah.

The Islamic cleric then called on the people to go back to their creator and seek for His forgiveness, saying, all these calamities bedevilling the country are signs of our wrongdoings.

‘For all indications, God is not happy with us and we have to repent because He alone is the answer to our woes, he declared.

Recall, the Kano state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has said if within the stipulated time the convict did not appeal he would sign his death sentence. Sharif has since appealed the judgement.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/blasphemy-any-muslim-lawyer-who-defends-convicted-kano-singer-has-renounced-his-faith-%e2%80%95-cleric/amp/
Lalasticlala
Mynd44

From my understanding of this case, said singer Yahaya Aminu Sharif did not blaspheme against Allah but simply questioned some stance of prophet Mohammed while upholding the stance of fellow upright muslims.

I believe any muslim supporting the execution of the singer should be sentenced to death for idolatry since they have idolized prophet mohammed even over Allah.

Itzstarboi:
https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigerian-doctors-to-strike-over-pay/

Dear OP, communication skill is very important.
Your title is quite misleading.
Strike over pay rise implies that the doctors embarked on the strike as a result of pay rise which is not the case as I deduced from your the body of your article.

I was surprised and was expecting this to be doctors in maybe Canada only to find out the title was only misleading.

[quote author= post=93626242]We are addicted to Grilling,
There is no stopping us,
Cos we don't wanna STOP!

For bad and negative addictions,
Try as much as possible not to think about it.
Make your mind up to stop and pray along with that.
All the very best.[/quote]Apparently you've never had to deal with any real addiction otherwise you won't use this medium for marketing but take it seriously.

To OP, it helps if you start to hate the addiction, then some how either through self-discipline, change of environment or religion, you'll overcome it.

I hope you get over it soon.

MJBOLT:

that's how women behave all the time.when they are angry,they lose their senses and attack everybody.

But men do the same esp under the influence of alcohol.
Though men are a bit more in check with their emotions compared to women.

Professorcplus:
Ever wondered why there must be enemies. The secret is it makes the opposition relevant. C'mon have you ever wondered why God has enemy (Satan)? Why you wondered why there are always bad guys in super hero movies? They make the world and movies more adventurous. Which means that this enemies create obstacle and overcoming the challenges is what create a sense of achievement. Without enemies no achievement. Point 1.

Let shift it to the religious body. Just imagine a church without enemies (Satan), it absolutely become irrelevant. Why is it that Churches prayer revolves around enemies? Why is it that witches and wizard, Marine Spirit, spiritual wife/husband cases are more common in Churches? It's b cause it makes the Churches more relevant. If truly God answered all prayers against enemies, Churches Will run out of business. So they point is your enemies are your greatest fans, keep them

Exactly. Even God and Jesus never prayd for Satan in the bible.
Would it not be easy for God to pray for Satan's repentance? Would that not easily bring about world peace and salvation for all mankind?

Yes, Jesus prayed for the forgiveness of his human enemies because he knew the real enemy is Satan, but he never prayed for the forgiveness of Satan.

uBuNiT:
Picking snails in dream means setback. Ask any pastor, alfa, or baba

Don't be quick to conclude.
Have you asked if he's into snail business or has interest in it? In which case it could mean he should go ahead with it as he would be successful in it.

rentAcock:
Sad. Another one who has chosen to flee instead of fight.
Another Ivy league educated scholar who could change Nigeria for the better has decided to switch sides.
This is very sad, she will be remembered as a loser
She gave up because she lacks foresight

Me and my household will never flee or beg the white man for visa, greencard or citizenship. We will continue to fight and do all we can for the betterment of this country.

Ode.
This country wastes it's best brains unlike
other productive countries who are willing to invest in them.

Apparently you have no value worth investing in. Otherwise you'll be happy for her.

Acrofab:
This has lasted for over 15years. It started after I ate in the dream. Have gone for tests and nothing was found out except malaria and typhoid.

Have prayed and fasted but when it seems the movements is subsiding, I found myself eating in the dream again and the movements will increase.

It is really making life unbearable to me cos the only time I don't feel the movement is when i am sleeping.
Please if you know what I can do to free kindly let me know.
please your help is needed.

It's times like this that expose the fallacy called religion.
After 15 years of fasting and prayer. I'm guessing you've been going for deliverance too. Yet no healing.
People needing real healing but no solution in the church and mosques.

Is it that miracles have ceased? Or my personal favorite they'll tell you, you do not have faith.

Afterall, God's power should overpower any other power thats triggering it and making you eat in your dreams.

manychallenges:
I first experienced it when I was so young, I think when I was just around 6 years old, it was few minutes after we finished vigil in church, yeah, I first experienced it right inside the church. I was just lying there conscious but I couldn't moved any parts of my body but after few seconds, I regained my freedom, and till now I haven't told anyone about it.

And since then, I've been experiencing sleep paralysis but not everyday, maybe once or twice in months, even sometimes weeks.

And I always felt someone or creature or spirit pinning me down, it always very difficult for me to do anything or move at all despite the fact that am awake, this ain't exaggeration, I always feels/felt someone pinning me down during the periods.

This morning own was something else, it was as if the someone is into me somehow, I slept on my side, and I felt someone pinning me down from back like aggressively cuddling me. It was horrified. My asshole is even doing me somehow or its just my mind playing trick. Only heard about spirit wife, is there gay spirit as well?

I don't sleep naked and am a male of 26. Is sleep paralysis normal or my own could be spiritual? Am a Christian but not "real" Christian like that, only go to church once awhile.

God should just have mercy on me, I've been going through a lot couple challenges and this is even least of them.

What do you think?

Here in lies the cycle of ignorant supersticions being recycled till it becomes believable hearsay.

It's natural and that explains why virtually everyone experiences it at some point.
Ofcos if you choose to believe it's spiritual, your mind would likewise make it so.

No one knows for sure what causes sleep paralysis or its implications.

As a kid just like anyone from a christian background, I was told to scream Jesus whenever I experienced it. I would struggle for seconds to mutter the name Jesus and it would stop.

Interestingly as an adult I don't even say a word anymore, I just wait for it to pass. So it's a matter of understanding it.

OP, I believe it's a natural phenomenon and you simply need to relax for the few seconds when it happens and it'll pass.

There are times you could experience it often. And there are times you won't even experience it for years.

Please you're not being raped in your sleep. That cracked me up.

Slurity:
I WILL GIVE YOU AN ASSIGNMENT THAT WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. FROM NOW ON, MAKE SURE YOUR ROOM DOOR HAS A DOOR CURTAIN AND ALWAYS SLEEP FACING THE CURTAIN. NEST TIME YOUR FEEL HAVE SLEEP PARALYSIS AS YOU CALL IT AND IMMEDIATELY YOU STRUGGLE TO WAKE UP JUST LOOK STRAIGHT TO THE DOOR CURTAIN AND NEVER BLINK YOUR EYES. YOU WILL SEE THE SPIRIT LEAVING THE ROOM WITH A PUSH ASIDE SIGN ON THE CURTAIN AS IF SOMEONE IS LEAVING THE ROOM. NOTE THAT THE CURTAIN WILL PULL ASIDE OR OUTSIDE. KINDLY NOTE THAT THE PERSON THAT IS DOING THE EVIL PLAY WITH YOU IS ALSO SLEEPING SOMEWHERE NOT FAR FROM YOUR HOUSE. There are some sleeping position that make your body assessible by the spirit. Dont sleep facing up directly, dont sleep with your hands cross behind your head and dont cross your led while you sleep. IT IS A DEEP SPIRITUAL MANIPULATION. PRAY AGAINST IT. SHALLOM!

I think a more important question, is what is the implication of sleep paralysis? Any idea?

praiseoski:
It is definitely spiritual, the work of an "incubus" attacking your life.... You have to tackle it spiritually as such spirits tend to be quite agressive.... People who experience such always have lots of problems in life, they find it hard keeping a relationship talk more or less getting married.

Go n seek deliverance in a "Bible beleiving church"

Don't be ignorant.
Children experience it too.

Righteousness89:
The Pains, Pestilences, Pandemic, Sicknesses, Earthquakes, Wars and Rumors of wars, Famines,etc are Too much on the Earth.

These are the Things that JESUS Christ told us would Precede His Coming. We can see that all these things have Intensified Heavily like never Before.

The World will keep Searching for Peace, Solutions and all that! But the Truth is that there is no Solution the World will give.

The Peace that will Calm the Earth is Coming but It will be after certain Earth Shaking Events..

The Rapture which is the Snatching away of the Saints
The 7 year Great Tribulation will come in which will bring in Greater Disaters and Pains on the Earth.
After which the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ which will bring about the Millienium Reign on Earth. It's at this Millienium Reign that we who make it will Witness The Peace and Sweetness of this Earth ..

What Does this Call for?

It Calls for all and Sundry to Ensure Preparation for the Rapture of the Saints. You must Have to Accept Jesus Christ to be Saved.

You Must be Born again to be Raptured!

JESUS Christ is Coming Folks! The Saints are about to be taken out! Come in to the ark today..
There is No more Time..

My question if you will oblige, is this.

Has there ever been any period of time in history where "these signs" (bolded) were never there?

NaijaDonCast:
After bottling to Lyon, Messi will not want to go to a league where he will be struggling to win the league because of competitiveness rather he will do a Ronaldo

It's already established, Messi is not likely to leave Barca, it's the mgt that probably needs to change.

CAPSLOCKED:
WE DON'T NEED EVIDENCE.
IF THE THINGS IN THE BIBLE CANNOT BE PROVEN, EXPERIMENTED WITH, AND REENACTED, I DON'T SEE ANY REASON WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO BULLSHIT.

The only evidence needed is for the powers to be made a reality.
So many sick, deaf, blind, lame in the church but no healing.
Las las pastor will say they don't have faith. Where as in the bible all the sick were healed.

Archaeology findings cannot replace the power. The power is the evidence needed.

Today pastors shamelessly go as far as hiring actors just to fake the power. It's all a charade.

jesusjnr2020:
Why "progressive" witches? What are they progressing from?

Or are there also "democratic" and/or "republican" witches?

A witch is a witch. No difference!

The only real difference that can happen to any witch is if he repents of his witchcraft and wickedness...

If you ever liked Harry Potter or Twilight, then you have no moral obligation not to support them.

Righteousness89:
Hallelujah!
GOD ALMIGHTY is not a Man that He should lie..

The Bible is the Word of God written by Men who were Inspired by God Himself. Every Part of the Holy Bible is True.

This is a Privileged Generation..

Few weeks ago it was Noah Ark

Today it Jonah and the Whale.

A Serious Message is being passed to us.
Noah and Jonah were Preachers of Righteousness that warned the People of the Wrath of God..

The people in Noah's Generation Refused to Heed
Those in Nineveh listened to Jonah, Repented and Ask God for Mercy.

Today is another opportunity for Someone to Shift From Darkness to Light, From Eternal Destruction to Eternal Life and From Hell to Heaven..

The RAPTURE of the saints is upon us. Humble yourself and Accept The KING of kings..

Personal Raptures are Happening Every Minute. You Don't know your time! Humble yourself and Accept The KING of kings..

THERE IS NO MORE TIME!!!

If you Have Ears to Hear, you Should Hear

Personal raptures You're an idiot.
Where in the bible did you see personal rapture

Don't twist the bible to scare people into your twisted mind.

Rapture as described in the bible has never happened so stop being an idiot.

It's amazing that you denounce science when scientists prove the bible wrong but support science when they say the bible is right. They're simply exploiting your gullibility. They just want to get views and make money cos they know how bad you want to believe it just to validate your belief.

The events of the bible cannot be proven, get that first of all. Otherwise God himself through the Holyspirit would have led everyone to the events.

Second, righteousness is not a bad thing however, God himself said our human righteousness is but filth to him. Isaiah 64:6.
I'm sure you understand this, knowing that while your righteous in some aspects you're very unrighteous in other aspects. So stop being a judge. Just try your part and pray for others.

LegendHero:
Wike don’t be shocked.

Tinubu is the APC leader and he spoke about the election situation in Edo just like you as a PDP member have the right to speak about the election.

Who else thinks Wike is now a shadow of himself?

The Wike of last term would have rained brimstone and fire on Tinubu, Oshiomole and all of APC but I'm disappointed in his comments of late.
I think he is now more politically mature knowing that he has no 3rd term as Governor. And his future could be in APC.

Kobojunkie:
There is no such thing in the lives of those who are followers of Jesus Christ. Read the gospel of John chapters 14, 15 and 16 to understand why such belief is meaningless for those who are followers of In Jesus Christ and are born of the Spirit.

I beg to differ sir. Perhaps you're the one who needs to read the gospels more. Most of the prayers of the apostles to the church were for spiritual growth in wisdom, utterance and love.

Romanoff:
After sampling the finest and seen it all, no kind of beauty interests them after the sampling so they settle for the unattractive ones cause that's unique to their tastes.

Maybe.

No iota of sense in this.
While I don't believe there is a general answer to such questions as raised by Op I do believe one major factor is the fact that handsomeness alone won't get you a beautiful lady.
Just the same way a handsome guy can get most girls, likewise beautiful girls can get most guys.
Hence beautiful girls would most likely settle for the guy that can afford them the financial security they need vis a vis a rich guy no matter how ugly (seriously ask oshiomole).

Hence a handsome guy without money is a turn on to only ugly or average girls.
But a handsome guy with money in his account will most likely end up with a beautiful wife.

QED.

Righteousness89:
To a Believer and student of the Bible ,The Rapture is a Glorious event which God has Promised to the Church. The Promise is to return and Snatch up His church, living and dead to Heaven and deliver them from the time of Judgement and Tribulation that will come upon the earth when God's Wrath is poured out on a Rebellious and unbelieving world during the End times.

To the Unbeliver, The Rapture is a Preposterous, Convoluted fantasy that is right out there.

Sadly, Some churches , pastors, teachers, etc Refuse to believe and teach what is Clearly taught and Promised in the Bible.

1Thelsalonians 4:16-18
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1Corithians 15:51-53
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.


The Rapture is an Event in which the LORD JESUS CHRIST, descends from Heaven in the Clouds, and with the Sound of a Trumpet, Calls from the earth all those who have Chosen to put their Faith, Hope and Trust for Eternity and Salvation in Him.

The Rapture is the next event on Prophetic timetable. You Believe or you don't is irrelevant! It will Happen.
It will be in a twinkling of an eye. It will be just like every normal day. Many will not Even know. Many will be involved in their various affairs not knowing the Rapture has taken place and the Saints have been Snatched away.

Get Prepared Folks! For in such an hour that ye think not, The Master will Show up.

Salvation through JESUS Christ is all that is needed to be taken away. Flee from all form of Ungodliness, unrighteousness, Wickedness and so on.

Live Ready! Live Rapturable!
We Fly Soon..

See You in the Sky!

Have you considered why most pastors have stopped preaching about rapture?
Perhaps because after over 2000 years there has been no rapture.
Perhaps because people once sold of all their properties and forfeited their lives just because of such rapture preaching.
Perhaps because those who preach rapture are usually broke people who have nothing to live for.
Perhaps because the idea of rapture makes no sense.
Perhaps because God himself promised Noah he would never destroy earth again after the first flood.
Perhaps because there is no proof of heaven and hell.

What actually amazes me is how often people claim to see visions of hell but never see visions of heaven.

Perhaps you believe you need to scare people to make them believe the gospel because your lifestyle is not witness of the gospel.

Kobojunkie:
There are no MOGs in Heaven. Anyone who claims to be an MOG, even those with title and kingdom, have nothing to do with Jesus Christ, the New Covenant.

You cannot live in disobedience to His commandments and still belong to Him. It can't be done.

Are you insinuating that God is against titles? I don't follow?

Backsliding simply put is sliding back into old habits.

It's most commonly used in religious settings especially by self-rightsous Christian hypocrites who themselves are chronic backsliders.

It is mostly used to guilt-trip anyone as long as the person doesnt meet their religious moral standards. Even though they are also morally bankrupt when put to the same tests as others.

IamWonderful:
long overdue, the former speaker will be blaming himself for been in haste

They say Politics is a game of chess.
But for Nigeria e be like Draft.
Chop one chop two.

Maximus69:
This solves the riddle, the holy spirit is not a separate person but God's active force!

Show me where it is written in your bible that the Holyspirit is an active force?
You are just echoing what your JW founders taught you outside the bible.

DappaD:
Yes sin and death were also addressed as kings. (Romans 5:14,21).
But I don't think that made them real persons with identities.

Theres a difference between personification and an actual person.
Let me ask you one simple question.
Is God a person or is personified?
Because the Holyspirit is the Spirit of God.

DappaD:
When has the holy spirit ever had a two-way conversation with anybody in the Bible?
Shouldn't be so hard to show such a scripture, should it?


At Acts 13:2, Paul and Barnabas were simply appointed as apostles by holy spirit – it doesn't mean holy spirit was having a conversation with them. The to-be apostles got the message/assignment directly from Jehovah God himself, so God spoke to them through a figurative ‘loudspeaker’ – that is, holy spirit. A loudspeaker isn't a living being, is it? Just a means of transmitting messages/information. That's how God, by his holy spirit communicated with them.

Janosky abeg come explain this with better illustrations.
You seem to have a gift of good illustrations

Now the Holyspirit is not a force but a loud speaker?
Like I always tell people, you can defend what you want to believe in the bible. The bible is an interesting book like that.

Anyway, I've shown you portions where the Holyspirit was addressed as a Person by Jesus Christ himself and also the apostles.
I understand you don't believe in trinity but that doesn't mean you should deny portions of the bible which personify the Holyspirit.

DappaD:
Personalisation doesn't prove personality most of the time.
Sin and death are said to rule as kings.(Romans 5:14, 21)
But they aren't humans, are they?

But the apostles communed with the Holyspirit, didn't they? Was that also an Apostrophe? Lol Acts 13:2

Maximus69:
Jesus is the one saying those things, and he spoke so many times using idiomatic expressions.
Jesus used pronoun like "HER" for Wisdom! Luke 7:35
"Her" for Babylon the Great. Revelations 17:16
Jesus used terms peculiar with living things for Death and Grave saying they were thrown into FIRE! Revelations 20:14

So only those who understands his terms will be able to produce the FRUIT of God's holy spirit, no matter how others argue they can never produce that FRUIT!

How then do you determine when it is a figure of speech and when it is a literal expression?

Janosky:



Numbers 11:17 KJV
"And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.



*Numbers 11:25
"And the Yahweh came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease"


...Romans 8:16,26 KJV

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:


"26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

John 1:32.
“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending like a dove, and IT abode upon him.”

You're quite predictable. I knew you would single out verses which suit your idea of the Holyspirit while ignoring those that represent him as a person.
I will help you all the same. Take your time to study further.

John 15:26
But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.

Acts 13:2
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, qthe Holy Spirit said, r“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul sfor the work to which I have called them.”


John 16:7-14
But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.8When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt[1] in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:9in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;10in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;11and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.12"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.14He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. [quote]

chatinent:
Holyspirit as him? It's not an angel.

Maybe you should read your bible again to confirm the pronoun used to address him.