₦airaland Forum

You blind believers and followers of TB Joshua can now see that he is a fake.
But what do I know?
You guys will still come here to defend and justify him.

And u guys will also bring another fake video to show that what he said earlier is not what he said. Yet u call urselves christians.

Sickening.

I've been waiting for this day when his fakeness will be made glaring under the sun.

LOL.
All these nairalanders sef.
You people say these things disgust you.
Yet whenever pictures of display of homosexual affections are posted here, all of you will flood to the thread to be typing "Tufiakwa" and "God forbid".

Since it disgusts you, why not keep away?
That's to show how many of you are just deeply closeted homosexuals, bisexuals or at most, bicurious.

Having that in mind, it is no surprise that Nigerians watch and download the highest amount of gay porn than any other country, inspite of the hatred they profess for homosexuality.

Hypocrisy at its peak.

OP, ride on bro.
People who are not even in the thick of the matter will be allowing people's sentiments to sway them one way or the other.

Ask people who have had opportunity of being patients in this hospital since this woman was asked to go on "leave". They will tell you the sorry state of the hospital. Initially, people were thinking that the FG was deliberately sabotaging the efficiency of the hospital in order to force people to accept the woman back. But things became clearer as time progressed.

Lab scientists in the blood bank sell blood that was donated by patients. They use hospital laboratory reagents to run tests for their private labs outisde the hospital. You go to submit samples, they refuse to collect. You ask them to follow u to collect samples in the ward, they refuse. Many of them bought cars out of the proceeds of their shady deals in these months of the woman's absence.

Accounts people divert monies into their accounts. They will always make sure that there is no electricity in the hospital so that they will be justified in not being able to key in monies that patients pay into the hospital accounts.

Nurses buy and sell latex gloves, surgical gloves, plaster, drips and almost every imaginable hospital supply at highly exorbitant prices. And if u ask them, they will tell you they are selling it to help patients out; that the hospital is out of stock for those supplies. And if u dare ask why those supplies cannot be made available in the hospital, u will receive the insult of your life.

Compare this to the period when this woman was in place as the MD. Every single staff in that hospital was up and doing. Everybody knew and did his/her job. No mago mago anywhere. Because if u mess up, u will at least be given a query or even suspended. Things were always working.

These are verifiable facts.

I'm not saying she is a saint. She doesn't have excellent personnel managerial skills but she always got the hospital to work. She took the to the heights it is at now. FMC owerri is like best Federal Medical Centre in Nigeria just because of this woman.

But they connived to remove her and laid all sorts of silly accusations against her so that they can continue and be benefiting from all the shady deals they have been involved in before she ventured in to stop them.

Does JAMB know that NASS can repeal the act establishing it?

nyscng:
Which state is best to do my NYSC?

Serving your country for one full year should be a thing of joy. It should be something that every youth undergoing one form of tertiary education or the other should look forward to.

However, this is simply not the case with youths in the country. Students dread the yearly service to their country due to the antecedents and ambiguous troubles faced by their predecessors.

The purpose of creating the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by a military decree on 22nd May 1973 was to help foster the unity of a nation just coming from the backdrop of a harrowing civil war which brought the nation to its knees.

It is clear from the trend prevailing on the subject of NYSC that the aim and purpose of creating the NYSC have been routinely defeated due to the innumerable negative experiences by unfortunate and innocent youth corp members over the years.

The NYSC being a government initiative has altogether become a necessary evil which every graduate must endure to stand a chance of any sort of meaningful employment in Nigeria. However, enduring this necessary evil is still a bit bearable when it is observed in some states of the federation.

Graduate always look forward to their url=http://nysc.ng/nysc-posting/]NYSC Posting[/url] as if it were a death or life sentence. You can’t fault them for doing this if you consider the struggle and suffering these children have to go through for this compulsory one year period, you begin to see the bigger picture.

It is, however, worthy of note that this one year service period can be made more endurable if it is served in some states of the federation. In this piece, (since you have the opportunity of choosing four states) we take a look at some of these states and why it would be preferable that you do your service in one them.

1. Akwa-Ibom

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Akwa-Ibom state is one state you should seriously consider choosing as one of your four options of service states. This would be a great choice which you surely would not regret if you get posted there.

The people of Akwa-Ibom are peace-loving, the weather is nice and favorable and there are tonnes of opportunities for serving youth corps to make money in the state.

The state government pays a monthly stipend of N20,000 aside from the N19,800 paid by the federal government, this is the highest paid by any state in Nigeria.

2. Lagos
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Lagos state can be referred to as Nigeria’s version of New-york which is the city that never sleeps.

The burst of activities on a daily basis, the endless opportunities to earn cash, the numerous employment opportunities, the nice weather, opportunity to meet new people and numerous side attractions makes Lagos state a good choice for your service year.

Lagos state pays her youth corps between N15,000-N20,000 depending on what part of the state you get posted to. This payment does not include FG’s Alawi.

3. Abuja
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The federal capital territory is always a worthy choice for the state of service. The reason for this is not far-fetched. As a fresh graduate, you’ll want to serve in a place where your abilities can be honed, a place where your life can be protected and safe, a place where you can find waiting opportunities to explore.

All these and more is what the FCT offers youth corners who serve in it. Whether you come from the north, east, west or south, it’s always a good decision to serve in “ABJ“.

4. Your state of origin
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It is most unlikely that you get posted to your state of origin, however, this is a good choice for many. It’s true that 70% of Nigerian students have never spent up to one month in their states of origin. They only come home during the holidays and spend a week or two.

The NYSC scheme can remove your name from this statistic. It could bring you close to your people, expose you to opportunities at home and change your notion about your state of origin altogether. Like they say, “there’s no place like home”.

source: http://nysc.ng/best-state-for-nysc/

I thought one is not allowed to serve in his state of origin?

Bolustic:
If truly you are not gay, then your arrogance/naivety has just cost you your job, in this era of recession where employers are looking for every means to prune down their work force, one has to be careful.
If you truly have a girlfriend, what happened to you showing them the pictures both of you took together or AT WORSE, some of your chats, just save your job? Even if you do not have one, you've to convincingly explain to them. You got angry with your employer? Iranu!
You claim it's your private life but when you want to take absence leave to attend to some pressing family issue(s), it's no more private abi?

I'm sorry to say this but you're a very big fool.

I wonder where u get ur sense of reasoning from.

What has somebody's job got to do with whether he has a girlfriend or not?
So a guy can not choose to stay off having girlfriends for any length of time??
So every guy on this planet has a girlfriend and it is abnormal not to have a girlfriend??

And you're here supporting nonsense.

And because the country is in recession, everybody should throw away their rights and allow themselves to be trampled upon.

You need proper and adequate psychiatric evaluation because you're not normal in the head.

wellmax:
A person is stupid when he decide to attack he personal opinion of another.
That said, the money for the food is NOT taken from amy salary. Fact!
Secondly, what emergencies are you talking about? Do Doctors work 24hrs? There are staff canteens and you there when you are free. Its saddens me that you make such a baseless point.

Still talking silly and yet thinking you're making a point.
Another's personal opinion is not immune to attack if it is a silly and stupid opinion that is based on mere speculation.
The money is not deducted from the salary? For real??
If you want a copy of my payslip, I will make it available to you.

U ask what emergency I'm talking about?
And u ask if doctors work 24 hours?
Obviously, u do not understand the concept of being on call. So I won't waste my time and energy joining issues with u.

Ride high on ur ignorance, bro.

wellmax:
So after salaries, you guys still get free food, and anything small thing next we hear is strike, strike. If you don't want the food, go and buy for yourself.

I wonder why you're being so stupid

Free food indeed.
A simple research can always save u a lot of embarrassment on social media.

The food is being paid for.
It is deducted from the salary. Do your research properly.

Secondly, maybe u will understand why doctors need to be fed adequately by the hospital when u have had a personal experience. Maybe it is when you have an emergency and you're rushed to a hospital and you're told that the doctor went to a restaurant outside the hospital to eat or that he is having running stomach consequent upon eating poorly prepared call food and is unable to attend to u "emergently". Maybe that is when u will understand.

U didnt see the decay in that hospital's OR. It is the call food that u can't even give ur dog that u extol and praise.

Honestly, we Nigerians are very sick and we get the kind of leaders that we deserve.
SMH

On my own, I have this to say:

That Marilyn woman was never an atheist.
There is nothing in her argument that is different from the other arguments we've been getting from Christians trying to convince others to believe in Jesus and in the bible.

There is nothing to show that there is a scientific leaning to her attempts to rationalise the bible and Christianity.

Either she was initially an atheist and then her mind retrogressively evolved to start seeing fairy tales as true and verifiable or she was never an atheist and is just using the "ex-atheist" card to whip up emotions of Christian thanksgiving to God for a "new" conversion and drive many sympathisers to her "business"

Refutation of Argument 4: Humankind's inherent sense of right and wrong cannot be biologically explained.

Adamson argues that humans have an inherent sense of right and wrong, and that these must have come from God. I would like to point out that children in their formative years, do not have an inherent sense of right and wrong.

Where do they learn that stealing is bad? Where do they learn that calling names is bad, or that hitting is bad?? They learn these things from their parents. Before a child can properly function in society, it has to learn how to function in society. Humans are not born with the knowledge of how to function in society, or there would be no need for laws. The Bible itself has a bunch of rules and regulations (ie the 10 Commandments), if we are inherently born with this sense of right and wrong, then why is there the need for these laws, and commandments?

I wonder….I would also like to add that different cultures have different ideas about what is right and what is wrong.


Refutation of Argument 5: God not only has revealed Himself in what can be observed in nature, and in human life, but He has even more specifically shown Himself in the Bible.

Well, first I’d like to add that God has not revealed himself in what can be observed in nature, and in human life. If he has, then everyone would all believe the same thing, which we don’t. Adamson uses an odd example showing that archaeological findings confirm the accuracy of the Bible. Such as confirming the existence of King David, the supposed author of many of the Psalms. The Dead Sea Scrolls, and other unnamed historical findings. Confirming the existence of King David offers nothing to the credibility of the Bible’s other stories, no more than the confirmation of finding the remains of the City of Troy confirms that Achilles really existed. It’s just another piece in the puzzle of history.

As to the Dead Sea Scrolls, they do not offer credibility to the Bible arguments. These are not secular sources that confirm things in the Bible, rather they are actual books of the Bible, that show that scribes copying the books weren’t as meticulous as previously thought. Through the Dead Sea Scrolls, we have found stories changed, added to, and rearranged from our other manuscripts found and dated about about 800 AD.

http://www.infidels....gazines/...html

Furthermore, Adamson tells us that the Bible was written over a 1500 year span, by (allegedly) 40 different authors, in different locations and on separate continents, in 3 different languages, covering diverse subject matters at different points in history. And yet she says there is consistency in this?? I’m surprised Adamson claims she has read the Bible, and there is consistency! We find contradictions in stories, numerical errors in dates, false information, translation errors. Not only that, but even the personality of God is conflicting in the Bible. He ranges from loving and forgiving, to hateful and death oriented, killing anyone and everyone.


Refutation of Argument 6: Unlike any other revelation of God, Jesus Christ is the clearest, most specific picture of God.

I would like to point out that claiming that your religion is unique because Jesus says this, or does this, is nothing new. Each religion has their own unique little quirks that no other religion has. This does not add credibility to your argument, nor does it discredit your argument. It’s a moot point.

Adamson claims Jesus was divine because he did things that people can’t do. Performing miracles. I’d like to ask if she’s ever seen Jesus perform any miracles. If she can show us where Jesus is performing miracles right now that were discussed in the bible. And if these miracles can be repeated, tested, and verified to be true. If any claims of Jesus performing miracles can be shown to me, I will sell one of my kidneys on the black market. But wait a second…isn’t Jesus not on Earth? Well, if he isn’t, then I guess she can’t prove that Jesus did perform miracles.

The Gospels were written by men, at the earliest 30 years after Jesus died, at the latest, 100 years after he died, by people who did not know him, and who, by many accounts, do not agree with each other on what he did, and how he did them. So, I would like to ask, why do you believe this book that claims Jesus did miracles. When there is no outside reference to Jesus doing miracles. There is more veracity that Bigfoot exists (which he does not), than there is that Jesus even existed, let alone performed miracles.

Adamson also tries to pull at my heartstrings by portraying God as gentle, loving, and aware of our self-centerdness and shortcomings. She states that we are all sinners, worthy of punishment. God is not gentle. A God who willingly slaughters, and orders the slaughter, of men women and children, is not gentle, or loving. A God who destroys the entire Earth and everything on it, is not gentle, or loving. A God who claims to be wrathful! Who admits to creating evil!! (Isaiah 45:7) is not gentle and loving. How is this loving? As to humans deserving punishment, if God is all-knowing, and all-powerful (and created evil), and God is the creator of everything, then God knowingly created us to sin. We are destined to do his will, and to follow his grand Plan for the Universe. If this is true, then we are no more deserving of punishment than the chair I’m sitting on. This also negates free will and choice.

If God is omniscient, and omnipotent, and he created everything, then we do not choose our path, he chose it for us. Anyways, Adamson also uses the tear-jerking story of Jesus’ crucifixion to compel her listeners to bow down and repent. I would like to acknowledge that if Jesus is God in the flesh, then God sacrificing himself (an all-powerful, all-knowing being), to a few hours of pain, isn’t exactly much of a sacrifice. Jesus may have died, but he was resurrected, and currently resides in Heaven. Where is the sacrifice? Did Jesus stay dead?? No.

She also offers that Jesus’ resurrection is the most conclusive proof of Jesus’ divinity. Once again, I’m amazed that Adamson can claim to have read the Bible, and the Gospel accounts. On the points of Jesus Resurrection, all four books have something different to say. These accounts are so differing, as to render the veracity of the Resurrection to nothing more than a story. She melds the four accounts into one, without offering the different details, and states that over years of legal, historical, and logical analysis concludes that Jesus rose from the dead.

Well…I’m going to let you analyze the four stories yourselves. But let me ask you some questions. Who arrived at the tomb? Who was there at the tomb at the time the people arrived? Who was told about the body being gone? What was Jesus’ lineage? How did Judas die? How was the field that Judas was buried in named?These are among the many strange contradictions in a supposed 100% infallible inerrant Word of God. Thank you for taking the time to read this refutation.

hopefulLandlord:
pls bro, I want to create a thread with this, do I have the license?

You're free.

Refutation of Argument 2:
The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today.

Adamson, in her infinite ignorance, attempts to show that the apparent design found on our planet offers compelling existence for a God. More specifically, the Christian God. She explains that the Earth is the right size and shape for life. That if it were any further from the sun, or with a different combination of gases, that life would be impossible. This is a rather humorous argument, as it equates to an analogy made by Douglas Adams about a puddle of water: “Oh look at this hole I’ve found, I fit so perfectly into it that it must have been made for me!”. If you don’t’ understand this, the water thinks that the hole it has found is perfectly designed for it, because the water fits right into the hole, not thinking that the water itself conforms to the conditions the hole has.

The only life we have seen, has been life on Earth, that does not mean that life can only exist in the way we see it on Earth. If conditions were different on Earth, it’s possible that life would have come about differently.Next, she uses the argument that the human brain is too complicated to have “come about by chance”. This stems from the belief that a) Evolution is goal oriented and that Evolution operates on chance. Through observation and other aspects of the Scientific Method, we know that there are rudimentary brains from which ours have evolved from.

The ability to reason and function can be seen in related species such as Chimpanzees, and Gorillas among the Great Ape family. Our brain is no more or less special than any other organisms abilities. The ability to communicate and reason is nothing new among animals.


Refutation of Argument 3: Mere “chance” is not an adequate explanation of creation.

Adamson uses this argument to show that natural processes can not explain the complexity of our universe. She gives us an analogy about looking at Mt. Rushmore, and seeing the faces, and knowing that they must have been created. This is much like the idea that if one is walking in a forest, and finds a watch, the person deduces that the watch must have been created, and could not have come about naturally. This idea is fallacious, as we know that watches do not come about naturally, and have never seen a watch come about naturally. We can observe mountains forming through plate tectonics. We can observe the trees forming, and dirt being made. We can observe these processes happening naturally, without a God being right there all the time, creating every tree, and every human.

Adamson also points to Sir Frederick Hoyle, who “showed” how amino acids randomly coming together in a human cell is mathematically absurd. I’d like to point out that Hoyle was an astronomer, and not, a biologist. His credentials equate to an english teacher trying to disprove complex mathematics. Anyways, I will get into specifics about Hoyles argument. Hoyle tries to show that life is statistically improbable. He wrote about it in his book “Evolution From Space”. He says that the statistic of life coming about naturally is 10^40,000 (p.24). Specifically, he states that a 20 amino acid polypeptide must chain in precisely the right order for it to fit the corresponding enzyme. Hoyle leaves this out, but there is a minimum specificity of this one specific possibility. That is 10^20. Hoyle mentions it by saying "by itself, this small probability could be faced" Even though it doesn't account that any number of the first organisms could be a possibility in having enzymes come together. He then states that the problem is there are 2000 enzymes. And therefore the chance of obtaining them is (10^20)*2000=10^40,000

There are three flaws in Hoyles conclusion:
1)Natural Selection is random.
2)That all 2000 enzymes had to be hit upon all at once.
3)That life began with complex enzymes working together.In answer to these flaws, natural selection is not random, but selective. It does not operate on chance, but on selecting what works from what doesn’t. What works moves on what doesn’t, doesn’t. Organisms do not use all 2000 enzymes, different organisms use different enzymes to function. Biologists all agree that life before is not as complex as it is now, therefore even if organisms today used all 2000 enzymes, it is not logical to believe they did in the past.

Furthermore, calculating statistical probability on past events is a rather dangerous thing to do, as you cannot possibly account for all the factors that are involved in calculating the probability, one could come up with any astronomical answer, that doesn’t make it true.I would also like to add that current studies in science have shown that amino acids can come together “randomly” to form protocells, the studies have been done, and repeated.

An interesting read gotten from

http://www.ex-christian.net/blog/9/entry-27-marilyn-adamsonex-atheist-retard/#.V-gMxzjTVAE

Refutation to Marilyn Adamson’s
Is there a God?

If you look here, you will see the inane ramblings of a supposed ex-atheist woman named Marilyn Adamson. She posits 6 reasons why we should believe in God, not just a God, but the Christian God. So, I wrote an essay refuting her points.Marilyn Adamson’s article from EveryStudent.com on the argument for the existence of a God is interesting at best, and extremely misinformed at worst.

Her arguments are as follows:
1. Most cultures believing in God
2. Irreducible complexity (Intelligent Design)
3. Argument from probability
4. Inherent sense of right and wrong
5. God revealed in nature, and the bible
6. Jesus Christ is the clearest, most specific picture of God.

These arguments are the core of Adamson’s argument, and from that, she attempts to give credibility not to “a” God, but to her bias for the Christian God. While “a” god in any form can be defined as anything and therefore never can be proved or disproved, defining this God as the Christian God allows me to further refute her arguments.

Refutation of Argument 1:

Throughout history, in all cultures of the world, people have been convinced there is a God. Adamson uses this argument to show that because the majority of people believe in a God, and have believed in a God, it must lend credibility to there being the Christian God. First of all, each culture who had the early religions, such as the Sumerians, Chinese, Indian, and Native American peoples, all have very different religions. From these religions, as cultures diverge into differing cultures, stems other religions, and so on, much like the denominations of Christianity.

These early cultures were extremely primitive in thinking, believing that lightening and earthquakes were caused by God. Crops failing and crops flourishing, natural disasters of all kinds were attributed to this God. Not one of these cultures had the same ideas as to what this God was like. Furthermore, polytheism was inherent in many cultures such as Sumerian myth, Greek myth, among others. These Gods took on roles of different aspects of human personality, and different aspects of nature. Using this as an argument for the existence of God, would be adding credibility to all of the religions, which would not bode well for Christianity, nor does it offer support to the existence of the Christian God.

saint7000:
Afonja nuisance. Blinded by hate!

Okay

saint7000:
Look at them...the problem of Nigeria; causing confusion, choas left and right, up and down in this country. Their sister pop-and-mom shop accountant has practically destroyed our economy, and these confusonists are blaming a world renowned economist whom under her stewardship Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa. Today, all of that gain has vanished. And these two have the temerity to tarnish her image? Afonja are naturally hateful!

What did she do to make Nigeria the largest economy in Africa? Nothing.
Which of her policies drove Nigeria to the top of African economic landscape? Just mention one.

Like I said earlier, she presided over the economy when crude oil sold for the highest ever price in human history. Crude oil is Nigeria's main and only export. So why won't Nigeria be the largest economy in Africa in that period. Na Jazz

She might be the best economist Nigeria will ever see but still I ask, what did she do with Nigeria's economy in Nigeria's time of abundance?
Even while she is lamenting her hand being forced to share the monies in the ECA, what did she do with the FG's share?

Valid questions that sentimentalists won't dare ask.

mazimee:
Channel your frustration to your president and his dumb incompetent ministers.
Your hatred won't change anything about her.

This your response is part of what is the problem with Nigeria.
Inability to separate your emotions and sentiments from reality.

I neither hate nor love Okonjo-Iweala.
The questions I asked are valid questions any right-thinking Nigerian should be asking.

But obviously, we are so shallow-minded that we fail to hold our leaders, both past and present, accountable for their actions. We are so petty that we wear our emotions and sentiments on our sleeves and allow our politicians to sway us by mere words.

Well, we get the leaders we deserve sha.

Really??
The YouWin that served as an avenue for embezzling funds?

How much did you save in Nigeria's time of abundance? Because you were at the helm of her finances when her main and virtually, only, export, crude oil, was sold for the highest price ever in the history of the world.

Where is the FG's share of the ECA?

What did you people do with the economy when Nigeria was in her time of plenty?

LOL
But u were actually asking someone to shoot Mr President.

It's lack of maintenance. I think the last VC to try to care a little for that place was Nebo.
Bartho totally neglected the place.
Now, I don't know what Ozumba is doing about it



BTW, which one is Zik's Blocks?
Is the name not Zik's Flats anymore?

Pidggin:
Why do you people keep posting in this section? If you agree that you have no religion why maintain a strong presence here? You should post more in the science section than here but this is not the case, why?

Seun I think you need to create a section for only Christians and an athiest section except you want more gullible Christians to be led astray.

So all atheists must be scientists
SMH.
When will you people learn to reason??

So there are no atheists who are artists or musicians?all mind, Atheism=Science??
Mtcheew.

ArcFresky:
educate me here, i want to learn....

in between... i like to call it Cede, dont mind my English, am a yoruba man

Google is your friend, sir.
The information I give you might be very deficient.
I'm not a historian.

ArcFresky:
The reason for ceding, lets be honest is because you want to be your own leaders and in the broader sense autonomous control of your resources.

Good... I hope for peace, you guys are allowed to cede.

Seceding and secede, you mean.

What you mentioned above is not what led to the declaration of the Independence of the Republic of Biafra.

Go and read about why the Republic was declared.

ArcFresky:
I said it, they are just after the Oil..

So Gowon was looking for oil when he put all the afore-mentioned areas together in the old Eastern Region??

kropotkin2:
A referendum is alien to the 1999 Nigerian constitution and as such Buhari's hands are tied on that. Besides who says Nigeria's unity is negotiable without the force of arms

Is that so?
So we're all slaves of the constitution even when that constitution is regressive, stifling, and oppressive.
Interesting.

It's good to know that some human beings think this way. It is good to know that some people feel that they were created to fit into some man-made laws and not the other way round.

SMH!!!

OgbonnaUbani:
So Onitsha is now part of Niger delta while crosss river and Akwa Ibom is in Biafra.
Hmm

If you look at that picture very well, u will see that the dot representing Onitsha is in the space allocated for Anambra State. There was no space to write both Anambra and Onitsha together. That's why it was written across the divide. What matters is the location.

Cross River, Akwa Ibom, and even Rivers, States were all parts of the former Eastern Region whose governor was Late Odumegwu Ojukwu and Biafra arose from the Eastern Region.

Solve it from first principles.

It's always more exciting for me that way.

And here I was, thinking that it is only blacks that are dumb.

How can someone be making a landmark decision and yet not know the implications of that decision even after many months and weeks of prepping the country for the referendum?

This is the newest height of stupidity.

tosyne2much:
This is a very good comment bro

Thanks man