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Errhm....nomone is talking about it....are they the ones that put that stipend in my account?


Abi na only me receive alert on 15th?

All this thing wey we dey do na because say we never get money to dey chop chicken everyday like before.
For my mind, the point where I will feel my life is getting balanced again, is when I get to that settled point, where what I'll live on for atleast the next 0ne year comfortably.
That's the minimum investment standard for survival.
Be able to sustain yourself for atleast one year, before you think of settling down or involving yourself with women.
There was a point where I was eating chicken and malt almost everyday.
You never get money to rent house wey two people fit live peacefully, you dey reason marriage....like I don't fucking get it.
Marriage is optional, so why confine yourself to that sufferhead lifestyle?

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Sometimes these things come to mind...and I used to pen them on my diary, but why should we keep these voices in our heads...let it find expression.
Rant- they say.
It is me and my thoughts...judge me...you don't know how big the world is.
Once I leave our mutual circle, every aspect of my life gets an opportunity to build a new image.
Na our mutual contacts dey hedge this perception of ourself.

I usually start out well in a strange environment...so I've learnt not to settle, mix-up or be comfortable in that community.
The moment I start to think about mingling in the environment, I get watered down, lose focus. Viz:
Started a new school in pry 5, took 2nd.
Milo competition in my school, JSS 1, came 2nd.
Writing competition, year 1, came 2nd.
Went for a program in Uturu, where I no know or send anybody...won two gifts.

Like if I start out as a stranger, I tend to succeed more, than when I settle.
I don't do or stop doing anything in particular...but when I start to feel at home, to relax....glory just reduces.
I think this is the longest stretch I have gone in breaking myself.
I remember feeling great one day, when I recognised that I had gone out of an addiction, by reinforcing my stance, whenener the urge came.
It just hit me one bright afternoon...I was also free from the nightmares.

I smiled. So I finally was free. Free to take or not to take...my mind would still be at peace. No compulsion to indulge.
Freedom of self. Na you cage yourself, na you go uncaged yourself by yourself.
Seems like an unending battle tho...buh one day, your eyes go open.
I encountered it twice...two previous. It feels great to actually be an overcome.
Your moral go dey excess. Coz you can afford to, but choose not to.
No self bondage.

Mehn.
Na your head and mind go free your body o.
Na you go break, build and push yourself.

I wonder why people are not telling others whats in front.
The amount of danger and stagnation that lies ahead.

If you have broken out, throw the ropes...teach thy brethren.
Life is limitless, let's all win.

Meanwhile...this is all a rant started coz I want to start eating chicken daily again...it was a lack of it that made me try other vices.

Roasted chicken dey give me joy 😊

Prisons/Correctional Centre is not a Revenue institution.
Govt could simply forgive the debt on paper and release whoever they have determined to forgive their debt/crime.

There's always budget for prisons, Bail payments notwithstanding.

This one na cold zobo.

Was she prosecuted?
So deportation after sack

E no clear

2.2 billion for election...just part of the sum we could trace...

Yet, you said these ones will enter and not loot to recover the funds...all of una na thief.

This country need political revolution, coz going to the polls seem not to be the solution

I was watching a movie (Hooking Up) about a female writer. She is a columnist for a LIFESTYLE magazine/blog
She writes for the Romance/Sex section.

The movie talked about how she had to engage in random sex with multiple people, and indulge in porn addiction, to get her creative juice flowing for inspiration.
That got me thinking...
Some of us have had to make career trade offs, at the risk of our mental health; not just to keep our job, but also to perform and deliver good work.

I don't know if you can relate, or know someone who has been there.
In marketing, Public Speaking, Laborious tasks, even reading, people have been known to take performance enhancement substances.

However, this has been majorly due to pressure of the environment because I believe without the pressure to produce great result- Always; one might just chill, and go at their own pace. Do what they can...learn what they cant...and leave the rest.

But not when you have a timeline to meet, management threatening your job...(NOT your means of livelihood)

To an extent, these things do spur you on the inside to perform better at the given task.
Some athletes take performance enhancing drugs, Artists take to different substances for stage fright, and inspiration et al.

The question then becomes...is it worth it?

It will give you result and money for today...but in the long run, the company/business becomes successful, while you lose yourself in the process.

I have been there.
I probably should have resigned earlier, but I didn't want to resign under pressure.
So I stayed...did my part, wowed them...and resigned a legend.
It was still my brain power, time, energy, and resources that was stretched to get the job done.
Now company is doing well without me, but I am the one living with the consequences of my indulgence to push myself.

Stress builds you, but you see company/organizational stress....run from it.
You are worth more than you are valued.
Go elsewhere, do something else, live healthily.

Life doesn't end in one company...do your future some good.

hakym619:


Good development
Pls is there a way that an ordinary citizen can get physical access to the state house of assembly member representing their constituency?

I need tips.

State House of assembly reside in the state.
Since it's your local government, go to your village, ask around for their exact ho,e location...or book an appointment at the govt House.....or ambush him/her after their sitting. They always hold those their meetings at the state assembly...getnthe date and time....

jkpbestseries:
i dedicate So Long a Letter... To them. Great Novel

Ah!
I read that book as a teacher during my service year.

That novel eh...just don't drop it.

Kept reading till I finished that book...the story long jare

Mariama Ba...the polygamy, women empowerment circle et al

Mtcheeeeeeeew.

They have come again with their APC talk.

Always making futuristic talk.

Tell us what you are producing as at today...no dey give us 2024 unrealistic projection

Ridiculous lies.

Who sew the cloth and slapped the price tag of 280M on it?

FreeStuffsNG:
It's not funny nah.

We have had several all-male crew crashes far so numerous that males should be ashamed of any misogynist who wants to make the gender of this crew an issue. These are Soldiers and professionals for that matter.

Let us be happy for them that they didn't die and multiple families are not mourning their fatal death by now.

There's no all-men military formation, that have crash landed a plane in this manner.

No ALL-MEN Military unit has ever crash landed like this.

They are a group ffg.....one person will get it right...but now when they are all women with their egotistical attitude....no-one will be humble and learn from the other

socialmediaman:
If he officially renounced his Nigerian citizenship as stated, I wonder if the court considered this status based on the 1961 Geneva convention on statelessness

Great angle...buh I want to believe his lawyers could have argued that too...coz you can't just render one stateless.

Well, since he has an origin, he can always apply back to Nigeria.
He still has his birth certificate, so he'll be deported to MMIA, then let Nigerian immigration decide where to send him.

Or is there any unoccupied place on earth where he can stay freely?
Is a refugee status applicable given his statelessness?
He still has to apply for citizenship...even back to Nigeria.

How does one constitutionally renounce citizenship?

FreeStuffsNG:
This explains in part why the month on month increase in our inflation numbers has started declining.

By the time the benefits of the Asiwaju Tinubu-led brilliant, competent and patriotic team fully manifest, it will be too late for the naysayers and unpatriotic elements to be blessed by the fruits of the land.
This is commendable. God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

What are you saying?
This subsidy removal, consequent increase in pump price, exchange rate....have crippled the people's purchasing power.
People no longer take unnecessary trips...coz they can't afford it as much as before.
More people are at home...working online to augment.
So there is no factor of the govt's policies that has positively led to the low inflation.
People aren't moving anyhow anymore.
They now use Dispatch Logistics services like HomeDel Logistics, to pick-up and deliver items nationwide for lesser cost.

But sincerely, I'm shocked that there was no much or proportional fare increase for short distance road trips.

But long distance travels and air transport have been experiencing significant inflation of prices on a daily.

So NBS using last 2yrs record simply means 2021-2023.
That's not Tinubu's result...let's see the times that follows, before giving credit to Pres. Tinubu.


Meanwhile, the way you sycophants rush to praise all pro-Tinubu post, is so obvious that you're being paid to do this.
We are all in this country, and we want the best for this nation, nomatter who the president is.
We will commend good work, when we see one.
Same way it's too early to criticise Tinubu's govt, it's also too early to sing his praise esp when we never see tangible result that translates to a better quality of life for us all.

Stop suffering and smiling...encourage the good work, encourage people to explore all of their potentials, and question or recommend policies that will work.
But don't come here singing fake praises on every post.

...instead, make comments that can renew our hope for a better nation...through Pres Bola Ahmed Tinubu. (Asiwaju)

achorladey:
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Those who were living with the very OBJECT of FAITH still beg for their faith to increase. I believe you believe you have started to walk the path of doing what you are expected to be doing as an unworthy servant of the one who called you....

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

This is no longer a nairaland comment, I want to have in-depth conversation...not to argue anymore, but to ask...what must I do to know God and fellowship with Him passionately?

What's missing that I need to know or do, to have a tangible knowledge of God beyond doubts.

Kobojunkie:
1. If you did it for as long as you did and are finally able to admit it to yourself. What makes you think all of the others around you couldn't have been living the same lie for even longer than you?

2. Well, what has living the Nigerian law and your many morality standards to do with God or any of what He said of sin?

3. Contrary to what your pastors and mogs fed to you, prayer is not the key to God or His Kingdom. Praising God does not get you anywhere closer to God than those who don't praise Him. So, even if you stayed home and prayed and praised all day until you were black and blue in the face, you would still not get anywhere further than you were able to when you had your pastors in your face. So long as you carry around with you and practice the same lies they fed to you, you remain under them shackled by their same lies.

2.
The bible still says to keep the laws of the land also.
As for spiritual sins, I don't find myself in sin anymore.

3.
I've dropped the practices I don't believe or understand or have tested and didn't work.
I'm inclined towards the good virtues the bible espouse.

Do you have what works? Infact, I'm not even doing again.

I'm ok at this point.
Let's just keep pushing coz...finally, we still have it better than most that have given more than we have given in this Christian race.

We go dey alrite...on God

achorladey:
Where will you put faith in all of these you mentioned above?

This is a truth that hits.
I realised that in all these, the first thing I lost was Faith.

I started rationalising God.

But for real, we are humans...our ability to think is for a good reason...including proving the integrity of religion.

What happened?
Is biblical God universal?
Why is what is happening really happening?
Why doesn't He answer us like we learnt in the bible.

Is this bible really for the entire humanity, or a vastly spread religion of the Europeans. But the Israelis dis not colonize Britain...so why would Europeans be spreading Christianity that doesn't concern them?

Religion is a mental bondage.
Subject you to an alter-persona in your head that you talk to everytime in prayer.
And if you open your eyes, and stop being afraid of death, you'd see that nothing is really under our control. We're just doing what we can to be safe and successful for as long as we eventually live for.

I never see devil, I never see god....something is missing in the teaching.
Something no add up...and we can't ask questions in mid-week Bible studies anymore.

Faith no dey again...na just positive mindset we dey use.
Others wey do the church Faith pass us, no dey do better than us.
Even those wey no know god dey get some lucky alignment of their stars...some are rewards of hardwork.

We have left Faith for material blessings, all we ask for now is light.
Light to a willing unbeliever. I want to believe again.
What do I hear, say or do to start believing again.
The one wey I believe before no pay off...so e dey hard to go back to being a Prayer warrior. It's like work now. Like Prayer is not even the key anymore.

In my mind, I live rightly.
You can actually retrospect and count how may times you've found yourself in wrongdoing withinthe past week.
Gone are the days they threaten us with Righteousness.
Living holy is not that hard. Just say no to occasions of sin.
Make better judgement calls.
E no really dey that hard if you're not exposing yourself to occasions of sin.

Faith is that factor that says...shut down your senses and believe it as it is written.
Faith also says...there's a force beyond the physical that works in our favor if we believe in that force, as thought by the bible and other religions.

Truly, no Faith.

Kobojunkie:
But God said He is only father to those who do His Will.. so do you claim He is your father because you in fact do His Will or because some ignorant pastor/mog somewhere filled your head with tales of How He is your obligated to being your Father?

2. Glad you are at least honest with yourself. Something most who carry Christian badges for head mostly refuse to do as they are afraid they would be ousted from the group or something.

Regarding Prayer, God made it clear that He does not answer the prayers of the Unrighteous(unholy). He only answers the prayer of the Righteous and grants the Righteous answers to all of their prayers. So, if you are not holy and righteous, God will not answer any of your prayers. It is for this reason that Jesus Christ urged His followers to seek first the Kingdom of God(Holiness) and God's righteousness so that all these things — the blessings and rewards of the Kingdom of God including forgiveness of sins and answers to prayers — are added. There is no other way.

3. LOL.... you want what they have also even if what they have is not real but imagined?

Hahahahhahahahaha
This guy dey funny.
That means all of us are just imagining 🤣
Naaah...it has gone on for too long to be just jonsing.
Well, if you ask me, I was also jonsing for 15yrs...kai.

I live holy o.
I rarely have occasions to sin, except when we're telling technical business lies.
I keep the laws of Nigeria as much as I can.
I really no dey sin like that.
I have some morality in me.

Well, instead of arguing with pastors in my head, make I just dey house dey pray to my God.
I believe in prayer as a means of declaration, setting my mind to avail myself to successful living everyday.
If connection comes, good.
If it doesn't, we keep praising the God that does for us, what we cannot do for ourselves.

MaxInDHouse:
He is closer now than ever before but you are the one who needs to be more attentive than just following misinformed churchgoers.

Will you like to know what God is doing around you presently?
Well it's written in your copy of the Bible that at this time in the history of mankind God will be doing something so if you're ready to know just type "YES" and i will show you right there in your own copy of the Bible.

First of all try to remove selfishness from your heart because He is the Creator and father of all so if you're trying to be His friend don't expect material gain because He never promise anyone that as you can see in the Bible that most of His worshipers aren't rich materially speaking.

I am Maximus one of Jehovah's Witnesses!

Funny man.

Does your bible agree that God can and will communicate with us individually?

That's the God I'm looking for. The one that relates, anyway He knows will work on me. He's the Omniscient and Omnipotent God na.

hashtagged:
You termed him "Christian God" that seems like you don't think he is your father.

He loves us very much more than a father does a child. But the question is do you accept that he loves you?. He didn't spare his son just to save you, so how much more the things he can do for you, if and only if you submit to him.

Read Matthew and understand his love, then 1st and 2nd John to broaden that understanding. Then acts to learn about his spirit

See what you're saying...am I supposed to THINK He is my father, or KNOW He is my father.

To talk hard?
To show for dream for over 30yr of sleeping dey hard?
Prophesies?
Just Scripture that hits, I'll manage.

Encounter in prayers nko?
Those my conc church days....nothing supernatural for over 15yrs of being in bible and church circle.

I want to believe what others have is real...so am I wrong to also want something real?

I wan get wetin una get also. I want mine to be real too.
I can sound bible intelligent, but spiritually, nothing...just suitable bible verses I can spin into sentences during Christian conversations.
It's not fair to me na...we might be raising the next generation that will not know God o.
Coz how will I teach my kids about this God...I can even try and teach them general God, but what about Jesus and all the Bible says we are and can be in Christ.

Dtruthspeaker:
Since I was born I have never done that tongue rubbish that scammers say you must do. In the bible Tongue means languages and not blebleble. And God still showed Himself to me.

And the fact that you have spoken the Truth that God has still not shown Himself to you tells you how far you are doing the wromg thing and that is of course that you have not done something which God is angry with.

Sin always keeps God away and the fact that you are looking for Him when you are hungry also means that maybe He called you when you were belly full but you did not answer so He's gone and now it would be very very hard to get Him again.

That is the bible warned "call on The Lord while He may be Found"

I had that thought before, Seek him while he can be found...
But it's not fair.
I'm still a young man...mid 30s.
People still go around for evangelism every day, looking for New souls who do not want to be found...yet,here I am, asking-seeking-knocking, yet He doesn't want to come.

Shey you're seeing the picture?
Na me dey use my hand dey find God, yet Him dey busy dey find new converts. Come and convert me that is willing to be converted, you no gree come.
All those breakdown "genuine" crying in church in repentance, hose old days altar call that would break you.

That's how I started going to Winners...the first day I heard about repentance for first time converts and BACKSLIDING Old Converts.
The thing touch me coz I been dey that category. But now, I'm not backsliding.
I live as rightly as I can, yet God doesn't want to give me a supernatural encounter in this life.

Knowing God by intelligent Bible study, will still show you so many holes in the bible that can't stand rational argument.
So the only way out is to have a tangible supernatural experience.

Biblically, what can be done for God to come to you in a way beyond head knowledge?

Kobojunkie:
You are right to say that no Christian, even with their so-called tongue-speaking and holyghost claims has ever in fact encountered the God of Scripture. It is impossible to have God and that which is against God together in one. God said this when He declared you can not serve two masters.

2. Look, God of Israel DOES NOT speak to Christianity... He has absolutely nothing to do with it because He made clear that Religion is against Him i.e. AntiChrist. So, what you have been investing your time in amounts to an exercise in futility.

Is God of Israel the biblical God we are supposed to be yearning for?

If he doesn't speak to Christians, ha!
What's going on...don't confuse me.

You're introducing something else...which one is God of Israel again?

Myer:
Stop looking for shortcuts to God's blessings and you'll be fine.

What's the longcut to God's blessing...or better put, whats the real route to God's blessings?

Coz it seems most of these pastors are not teaching us the right thing.

Na only them dey hear from God?
Is God not the father of all?

Its not even about material possession, (which is a part of the blessings) its about a RELATIONSHIP.

There's none.

We pray in our head, and believe in our head...act with same mindset.
We are not experiencing the Biblical God.
Seems we are the ones psyching ourselves with religion of all sorts.

Dtruthspeaker:
And this is exactly why He never responds to people no earthly father ever reaskingsponds to strangers children.

He said... behold I stand at the door knocking....
...I've been praying and asking God to relate with me in the way I can flow.

Is He finding it hard to reach me, a common hungry human?
I am a "Christian" by religion, not by TRUE relationship.

It's not just me...if most of you Christians are true to yourselves, you probably also pray in tongues...yet no encounter yet.

Except you're saying I'm the only tongue speaking, holyghost filled born-again Christian that has no real tangible encounter with God.
He speaks to you all...!

Tt

It's no longer news.

We want to hear when they officially kick off the process.

Mod.

What nonsense am I reading up there.

Why are all these hungry Nigerian up there making cheerful comments as if it affects them?!

It's so obvious this is a sycophantic post...we know those that are working, we see them...we hear them....let's see the actions start.

Tinubu's audio salary increase never reach anybody yet.

You hungry praise singers should continue....ur stipend can't buy ordinary onions anymore, yet you're here praising what you don't know.
You get money for visa...wetin you wan use your passport do?!

Political nitwit

Nichee:
https://afr.808playtv.com/football/2498642-nigeria-vs-lesotho.html

This link is working perfectly.

Thank you...mk I bookmark for future matches

MasterTeeUSA:
We are too distracted with soccer....

Super Eagles
Golden Eaglets
Super Falcons
Premiership
Spanish League
Italian League

We are NOT serious as a people. ...let us focus on development and spend less time on Soccer and BBNaija or reduce its intake.

Focus on development with corrupt system that doesn't support productivity ba?
Please for our mental health, let's indulge abit in healthy activities that eases the nerve.
Besides, watching/supporting Super Eagles is a national obligation...they are our fellow countrymen...we will keep standing behind them as they bring pride to Nigeria.

Idiots don equalise... S. Ajayi

diaspoAFRICANS:
Stream it here

https://www.plus.fifa.com/en/player/eaf59f74-fe2c-48d1-b054-9ba05b45dc24?catalogId=bdb42f77-2406-490c-a654-0cb25d5e433c&entryPoint=Slider

You watching from here?

It's not working for me o

Jesus!

Lesotho scores....all the Lesotho fans jump enter field like say dem don win World Cup...even when match never finish.

Super chickens at it again.....who be Lesotho na?

If we don't qualify for this World Cup, I may stop following Nigerian matches.

Wat tha hell

Padipadi:
Just read the crap. BBC should settle amicably.
I won't say cos the north are nuts and support oyinbo against my fellow black.
Meanwhile, that aboki musician wan open suya spot cos I know that song no really be hit. If so, I go don hear am.
I listen to lots of northern music.

That's what the guy is saying...
Him never blow with the music...yet BBC is using it for their program...not even free airplay, they cut a clip and infuse in their program...that's utility.

According to the musician, he said because BBC is using it for their program, it might be misconstrued that he is the one using the song to trend...you know people no really rate you if you no get original sound.
BBC is tainting his career.
BBC is also getting utility from the music for free....no no..dey should pay...or give him atleast free three month airplay on their BBC Hausa station

FuckingMachine:
Tinubu induced frustration is affecting Agbadorians.
I've been fucking for 5k recently instead of 15k runz girls charge b4.

Walahi, you no lie.

That 15k na one fine Sales gurl salary for a month.

With 2k gan, you fit see TDB.

Na say man don comot for street....cheap fine young gurls don yààtò now