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PhenomenalMorgan:
As much as I like the Good work of charity apostle chinyere is doing, I don't like how and why he publisizes it!!

I used to be of the same opinion that it was hypocritical to publicise your good works and alms giving; even Matt 6 warns severely against it, but now I see it differenty. Sometimes it's very important that he publicises his works. The primary reason is to encourage and challenge others to do same.

By publicising his works, you will be amazed at the number of other pastors, religious leaders and ordinary people like me and you who have been challenged andhave taken a cue from him to do similar things.

lonelydora:
I can't descend so low to engage Freeze, a man who reads the bible half way

Why does this your statement remind me so much of Luke 18:11?

The bolded part of your statement is very typical of what a true follower of Christ should not do; being prideful. "I am better than them so I can't descend so low so as to engage them on anything."

This sort of attitude was well documented in the bible with Christ constantly rebuking the Pharisees for it.

Luke 18:11 - The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people--robbers, evildoers, adulterers--or even like this tax collector.

OkaNaUbe:
Barcelona akuola Man U ihe tinker kuru pan.

This must be one of the savage captions from the stables of BBC Igbo

ojay36:
You currently work in the UK then? I'm a 3rd year elect elect student and I'm thinking of masters abroad where do you think is the preferred destination money wise..

From the current trend of things, I think it would be best if you focus your attention in Canada or even Australia for any further studies. The UK currently doesn't give you any opportunity to search for a job after you're done with your masters because they no longer grant the post study visas.

CodeTemplar:
You this APC young man, so you can make sense like this. Your political bias has tilted you a lot.

Guy gerrarrahia... PDP man!

ojay36:
If i may sir, what country did you get your Meng from and how has the degree gotten abroad helped your profession?

I studied mechanical engineering in Nigeria and did my masters in a UK uni. I would say the biggest thing the UK masters did for me was to boost my confidence in myself; it helped me realise that contrary to my earlier thoughts that I learnt nothing in my Nigerian Bachelor's, the fact is that my foreign colleagues were not better than me knowledge-wise, they were only just more confident. And with time, I gained my own confidence too.

madridsta007:
Studying in Nigeria and completely relying on your lecturers, laboratories, etc, is deluding yourself.
Going outside the box in every course is the way to go.
I know graduates of Engineering in Nigeria who are currently working at NASA, Washington D.C. Two brothers from a University in Northern Nigeria.
If you rely on what you are being taught, you'll probably end up being mediocre. If you go outside the box, you wouldn't. The average Nigerian student is extremely lazy. He/she goes on the internet to chat and engage in other frivolities. It is the same internet that gives the hard-working ambitious student, Edx and Coursera free courses, which this hard-working student takes and improves his knowledge of data science and analysis to complement the theories he learns in school.

The ambitious student does not have two heads. The lazy student easily latches onto an excuse, such as describing his/her course of study in Nigeria as a "scam". No sir/ma. It isn't. You are the lazy, scamming student.
It is up to you.

To correct something in your opening sentence, it is not only limited to studying in Nigeria. No matter wherr you study, you would be deluding yourself to think you can make any progress by wholly depending on lecturers, school labs etc. The difference however between the Nigerian system and the foreign systems is that overseas, a student is encouraged to get involved in personal research to get himself/herself properly grounded. But in Nigeria, we largely just have the believe that the school system should teach us everything. This mindset when combined with the fact that we lack basic facilities in our institutions, further aggravates the hopelessness and unproactiveness of Nigerian students.

Just 10 - 20 years ago, connection to the internet was a massive luxury for the typical Nigerian student, but that is no longer the case. But it seems like instead of using the privilege of the internet to engage in private research, most students rather prefer to engage in instagraming, snapchatting, facebooking, yahoo-yahooing etc. At the end of the day, we all latch onto the age old excuse of not having modern facilities.

Dothraki:
what is the point of going to school if everything you need to succeed is outside of university wall?
Many of the innovations we enjoyed today came from within university walls.
With people that think like you, Nigeria can never progress

I honestly dont understand how people provide justification for failed system we practice in this country.
Many engineering graduate believed that technology is a product of witchcraft. And here you are defending such nonsense

Untill people stand up. And challenge the status quo. Nigeria will never progress

Regarding the bolded statement, you need to be aware that it is not a Nigerian thing. All over the world, you are taught only theories and principles at Uni. What makes you a proper engineer lies outside of the walls of the university; most times it has to already reside inside of you before you even get to Uni.

Dothraki:
Engineering undergraduates study old theories from Way past generation, that is of little relevance to modern engineering. The university system teach so many calculation, and almost nothing on how to apply these mathematics to solve real life problems.

Many of theories learned aren't useless jargon, since we arent taught how to praticalise most of those knowledge, 99.99% of all engineering graduate would have forgotten what they learned by the time they graduate.
We only remember what is useful to us, what help us get through, or things we do constantly. Everything else, our brain trashes it.

Its quiet disturbing Most of the engineering student only read to pass. Which makes one question, are we in school only to pass some paper? If so, modern technology would not have existed at all.
Our primary purpose of studying engineering is to apply scientific discoveries to solve practical problems in the society. But unfortunately the system only made us to study only for grade.
Without practicing what we learn our brain will eventually discard everything as useless

An average engineering graduate does not remember 90% of what he learned in five years, I tried to go through some of my jottings from 300l, i was suprised because it all seem strange to me.. i couldn't remember a thing from the calculations l did with my own hand. A friend of my who have have a very much good grade have the same experience.

Apart from the abstractions of studying engineering in nigeria, most of the curriculum is old, we spent so much time studying theories that should be thought as a mere history. No wonder there havent been any groundbreaking engineering achievement from Nigerian universities

Majority of the engineering jobs that involve applying engineering maneuver will be given to foreigners. Innoson motor employs foreigners to do All of its engineering design, our Nigerian graduate work as if they are
mere technician. Engineering graduate will never apply most of the theories they learn at school. lot of our graduate who are lucky to find job in engineering companies work as a maintenance engineer. Whenever they need new designs or innovation, they hire foreigners to do the job, this is quite sad in my opinion. They have made mockery of 5 years of lifes. Quite sad

I am a qualified and experienced engineer who studied in Nigeria for 5 years, did a 1 year masters overseas and I currently work overseas. The truth is that there's no difference between me and my colleagues who were born and who schooled abroad.

A lot of Nigerians harbour this defeatist idea that they only teach (useless) engineering principles in Nigerian universities and nothing more; this mindset also causes so many of us to lose confidence in ourselves and lose our self worth. I had this mentality also, but when I left the shores of Nigeria to work overseas, I got to realise that those so called 'useless' principles I was taught in my Nigerian university days is exactly what they teach people all over the world. Every other knowledge and skill you add to your portfolio is based on personal effort and proactiveness; you get to be a proper engineer, not by what you are taught in school, but rather by the experiences you gain on the job.

In summary, nobody is really taught to be an engineer in school, you are only taught principles; it is then left to you to make the best out of those principles.

Samyj247:
We were made known by Peter the Rock Obi to understand that the APC government took a capital vote of over 6 trillion for capital expenditure. But in 2017 budget spent over 1 Trillion and and 2018 over 1 trillion spent..please Nigerians let's ask this APC government where they kept the remaining 4 Trillion which is unaccounted for and Nigeria is still borrowing funds from outside the country.

I was totally disappointed with Kadaria when Obi brought up this issue and was asking the APC where they kept the the remaining 4 trillion but he was cut shot by Kadaria who has been promised 1 billion from buhary to not allow Atiku and Obi to tarnish APC image.

Buhary is a silent criminal, those types that you won't see any money in his account cos he siphon's money through his brothers and relatives. Remember, when buhari was asked to speak about the Kano state Governors video clip, he said why would the governor even agree to collect the money by himself. This statement simply means that if it were buhary, he wouldn't have done that but would rather collect the money in a silent criminal way, that is, asking that the money be paid to his relatives accounts so as to keep his name clean.

I was one of those that supported APC in 2015 both online and offline but I must confess that I am totally disappointed with buhary and that so cold pastor osibanjo.

What we should be asking the APC now, is to account for the remaining 4 trillion meant for capital vote/expenditure as brought up by peter Obi.

APC promised Kadaria N1billion?... Issorait! Sometimes one can't help but wonder what people smoke in yhese days.

AFONJACOW:
and where are they going to get oil they are going to refine there, hope not from Niger Delta , or are they going to refine groundnut oil in that refinery because we all know north as oil barren desert

Don't let petty ethnic hatred kill you.

The oil from the Niger delta is being sold on a daily basis to unknown companies and refineries in India, europe and other parts of the world; you have absolutely no problem with that. But now, a Nigerian sets up a private refinery in Katsina and you are already swearing and protesting that Niger Delta crude should not be sold to them simply BECAUSE THEY ARE FELLOW BLACK NIGERIANS... The black man truly has a serious problem.

Like I said before, may your ethnic hatred not kill you!

...and by the way, the ethnic hatred is already muddling your focus, the title and body of the report clearly states that the crude will be piped from nearby oilfields in Niger.

johbara:
I keep saying goodluck is the worst thing to have come it of the Niger delta.....Buhari is building a refinery in katsina were there is no drop of oil while goodluck could not do the same in Bayelsa state. lesson: ......never give power to a man who does not understand the dynamics of power.

The refinery in Katsina is private. And due to it's location, it's more economically sensible to feed it with oil from Nigerien fields.

cc: tactius, koolbe, orisa37, Afonjacow

Awol1:
They will always paint the picture of its good side.

Look beyond the ephemeral and read the lines.

Are we done reviving our moribund refineries?

Why would we have to team up with Niger Republic to build a whole new refinery while that fund would have been channeled into making our existing refineries work?

Stop letting these jihadists think for you.

Learn to use your God given brain for what it's meant for.

Are you really sure you don't also need that bolded advice you gave?... Maybe you also need to stop letting your emotions and ethnic prejudices think for you. The refinery in Katsina is not being built by the government, it's private

According to Phyno, "inoolu uwa gi, e releasia gi sex tape"

Baad guy!!.. Man just dey dey flex him life.

But seriously, who leaks these things to the public and what exactly do they gain by leaking private videos of people?

You cannot educate the dead; I actually thought this was supposed to he common sense.There's a reason the primary responsibility of government is to secure lives and properties.

IamD18:
Next thing na to smoke weed before his parents.

No matter how some men are going to praise you for your action, the truth remains that most men don't fancy alcohol drinking ladies.

Keep popping Star beer from joint to joint, time go reach when you go dey order for Nutri-C just to form responsible so that guys will call you after date.

*Most Nigerian men.*

In Nigerian households generally, boys are raised to drink beer and all sorts of alcgohol but our girls are raised to drink malt (and other non alchoholic) drinks. I've noticed this only amongst Nigerians.

Elvis778:
i thought i had seen it all, not knowing we still have extremely shallow minded people. Can you take a minute to listen to your self?
[b]PDP borrowed equal amount of money in 16years, APC borrowed same amount in just 4years, what does it tell u?? [/b]They are still planning to borrow again so as to finance this year's budget, and u still see nothing wrong with dat?? Ur still blaming PDP
We voted out PDP hoping for a better government, and here we have something worse and you still see nothing wrongwith that??
Bros, we are the poorest after India, No 8 hungriest, one of the most insecured country in Africa, and you still see nothing wrong with that?? U deserve to visit a doctor please, seriously speaking. This is the most stupid comment i've seen this year.

If you had the capacity to pay attention, if you were not desperate to jump into a response before taking a minute to read what I wrote, you would have noticed that I did not in any way, directly or indirectly, say there was nothing wrong with borrowing. I only said PDP which also borrowed massively even when almost 4 times more income accrued to the nation should by no means be the ones castigating APC for borrowing at a time of significant revenue drop. PDP has no moral right to open their mouths to tell anyone that. This is common sense.

PDP borrowed equal amount of money in 16years, APC borrowed same amount in just 4years, what does it tell u??

You want to know what your statement above tells me? ... It simply tells me you're just one of the plenty Nigerians who only get info from beer parlour gists and gibberish vomitted by political commentators on social media without bothering to verify or personally analyse anything.

I clarified this thing in an earlier post on this thread. Many Nigerians carelessly just compare 16 yrs PDP vs 4 years APC, but fail to note that the so called money PDP borrowed was borrowed mainly just in the last 4 years of PDP (when national income was highest). If you want to see true shallowness, just take a look at your nearest mirror; try and verify your info before coming to public to spew insults and embarrass yourself.

Esseite:
All these $100/barrel quote was not even a whole year... how much did obasanjo/yar adua sell crude to warrant this pdp 16years quote...

Obasanjo sold for $12, while yar adua sold for $23 - $40 while jonathan dangled between 40 and 100

$100/ barrel was the AVERAGE for 5 years, sometimes it went over, sometimes it was below. And a point to note, I wasnt talking about 16 years, I specifically referred to the last 5 years of PDP, that's the time everything went down.

Regarding the oil prices in the OBJ era, that was a totally different era, a man who earned N10,000 20 years ago (1999) may have been surviving and comfortable. But give that same man the same N10000 in 2015 or 2019 and he wouldn't be able to feed for a week. Also, if that same man earns N100,000 today, his taste and expenses also go up. So if you crash his salary to even N50000, he might go hungry. Stop basing your comparison of oil prices on Nigeria's situation of 20 years ago.

In 1999, Nigeria's forex demand was less than 10% of what it currently is today. We weren't importing everything as we do currently, Nigeria wasn't importing 99% of it's petroleum product, every man on the street didn't have international mastercards in their wallets to buy even handkerchiefs from abroad at convenience, every other Nigerian wasn't going abroad for studies or medical checkups. 20 years ago, only the top class elite in society needed forex, so in general, the forex demand on the streets was much less than what it is today. Also, the standard of living on the street was far cheaper in 1999 compared to today; minimum wage has increased by up to 2000%, the size of the civil service has multiplied by over 1000% since 1999, the list goes on and on. So yes, even though oil sold for just $12 in 1999 and the Nigerian government made little revenue then compared to today, the little forex and the overall revenue earned then was to a large extent, more sufficient relative to the recent times.

Reno will actually keep losing sleep for another 4 years?.. 8 good years of high BP, wow!

Elvis778:
so because PDP didn't tell us what they did with the 12trillion, APC should now finish us abi??
Don't be stupid please.
I agree PDP also cheated us, but theirs was better, cuz they did it secretly and our standard of living was fairly good as of that time.
But our so called APC government has denied us our money, our security, our happiness and even our daily meal. And u still defend dem?? What nonsense?

Huh?... How can anyone possibly excuse the nonsense PDP did?.. How can you excuse PDP for their filth and have a problem with APC?...

PDP enjoyed almost 4 times more income than APC, but in the same period, borrowed almost the same amount which APC has borrowed. In the same period, PDP also vaporised reserves and ECA and we still cant point out a single tangible project to account for that, but your excuse is that your standard of living was better?....

Obviously you do not have a clue that the reason your standard of living tumbled post 2015 when oil prices crashed was because when there was plenty, your govt (which you make excuses for) squandered monies that should have been used for sustainable capital development; of course when govt squanders money like that, there is a superficial semblance of a booming economy because some petty change still trickles down to everyone on the street (even when yahoo boys foolishly squander money on the street, the artisans also gain). But the real evidence of how stupid it is for a govt to squander money comes when the money stops coming. It is unfortunate that even educated Nigerians cannot see the link; educated and supposedly enlightened people believe and still argue that life became hard post-2015 because govt changed hands, and not because free oil money stopped flowing. And then you argue defend the mindless foolishness of PDP.

Nigerians (and the black man at large) truly does not have the ability to think, especially when it comes to thinking beyond the food on his plate today.

Esseite:
Stupidity is when you are in debt of $65bn (N24tr) but jubiliate over $40bn in the reserve...

Please what are you reserving?

But finally, what bloody moral right does the pdp have to even question or criticise Buhari on borrowing?

The real stupidity is when PDP incurs almost half of the so called debt in 5 years when the nation had almost 4 times more unprecedented income, but in the same period, squandered reserves from over $40bn to $28bn, vaporized ECA of $20bn, and had no tangible projects to show for it, yet they have the guts to criticize APC for borrowing at a different season when there was an oil price slump and govt income was down by over 70%.

Of course the PDP can only exhibit the stupidity above because they know majority of Nigerians lack the capacity to pay attention. First of all, many people ignorantly think the N24trillion debt happened just in 4 years. Secondly, many people assume in their head that it's 16 years vs 4 yrs. Several people have made a comparison saying pDP borrowed Bleep amount in 16 years but APC has borrowed more than that in 4 years. What these people fail to realise is that virtually all the PDP borrowings only happened between 2010 till 2015 when the nation had unprecedented oil revenue.

If APC gives an excuse that it is borrowing because there was an oil recession and national revenue was severely hit since 2015, what excuse exactly does the PDP have for borrowing and accruing almost half of this debt figure between 2010 and 2015 when revenue was 4 times more?

Why should the customer be the ones to pay for meters?... Meters should ideally be the property of the electric company, everything in Nigeria is just an anomaly.

First it was Reno, now FFK, the 2 usual suspects. These PDP pawns are just pained deluded losers.

Meanwhile this is coming from the twerps who just funished gobbling on the poo of another fulani man.

GavelSlam:
The choice of words are quite local, probably from the depths of an uneducated apprentice in Nnewi or Mokola.

In addition, no geologist can tell you with certainty what's going on in a sedimentary basin until investigations are carried out.

Usually such investigations require drilling which is what NNPC is doing right now.

Most of the people making these statements and spreading these false reports have no clue; their statements are driven purely by ethnic prejudice. Had it been that woman had said the opposite, they would have been so pained.

teufelein:
[s]Breaking News: Crude Oil Madness in the North of Nigeria


"Crude oil cannot be discovered in any part of northern Nigerian no matter the depth of drilling, the $1billion wasted in oil exploration in the region should have been invested in education" — American Geologist and Former NASA Astronaut, Kathryn D. Sullivan.[/s]

Trash!...

First of all, who is Kathryn and why exactly should her words be taken as sacred fact?... Is it because she is white or is it just because it aligns with the ethnic prejudices of some fellows?... how are we sure the so called Kathryn actually even made this statement?... Why is this report contained and circulated only in IPOB facebook pages and whatsapp groups?

Most of the oil fields in Nigeria and all over the world today were not known to be oil fields until exploratory drilling discovered the oil. Just recently, oil was found and is now currently drilled in Ghana... If there can be commercial quantities of oil and gas in the Lake Chad basin on the Chadian side of the border, why exactly are some folks who know nothing about petroleum geology so confident that there can't be oil on the Nigerian side of the same basin?

kjhova:
In my N2.50k understanding of Crime Scene Investigation, dont assume anything without thorough investigation.

However, some straight forward observations are that:

1) It can't be OD, can it? 4 people can't possibly OD all at once.

2) It has got nothing to do with soap or sex as most here suggest. People have orgies daily all over the world. It may not fit most people's moral prism but orgies aren't exactly life threatening acts.

3) So maybe a poisonous chemical reaction in the mixed substances they were having? If so, this will easily be identified post mortem.

4) Maybe something poisonous they had earlier that has nothing to do with all of the substances reported here including the sex and the soap?!

5) Poisonous fume from a generator or gas leakage or something?

6) or, if you believe in weird stuff you see on TV, Karma for some previous wrongdoing came down in the form of some horrible looking grandma from the village to knack all of them akpako!

tactius:
Good points.

However on your number 3, they were said to have combined vodka and codeine....which when taken can send you to the other side in minutes.

They also took Tramadol...commonly used by some males to aid in s'x. Also in large doses can cause severe drowisness...then throw in alcohol...

Still, good points. Too bad forensics is not too good in Naija.(money)

In all of this, I place my bet on carbon monoxide poisoning (from gen fumes). Food poisoning, drug OD or marathon sex would rarely take down 4 people at once. CO poisoning is the one silent killer which can easily take down 10 people at a go without anyone one of them even lifting a finger to react.

haymekus:
It's very possible, since they all consumed those substance, you don't expect that they will be conscious of their environment so there is no way they would have noticed that the other person has given up

It's possible but very very very very unlikely that 4 people would just drop dead just like that simply because of tramadol that everyone on the street is abusing. There are numerous more realistic scenarios that may have played out there; this incident bears all the signs of carbon monoxide poisoning from nearby generator fumes. It's disappointing seeing virtually everyone just focused on tramadol and sex.

Jowanson:
Overdose of those substance could have pulled the trigger that killed them!

Sexual marathon such as a foursome on it's own will increase their blood pressure. Adding those killer substance and perhaps they may have taking an overdose of those substance could have increased their blood pressure and caused a severe cardiac arrest.

This is 1 out of 1000 possibilities. But do you agree with me that with us being Nigerians, we've already closed the investigations at this point and proceeded to start the usual preachings?...

Now let's examine the substance of this above conclusion. Sexual marathon and drug overdose, what really are the chances that it would kill 4 people without any of them being able to lift a finger and raise an alarm?.... Were all 4 people having sex at the same instance?

czarina:
I'm not dancing on their graves but then, if this is what it takes to stay "socially" #woke, let us be forever "unwoke".

Struggling parents sends you to school and their reward was a foolish death from a drug-fueled orgy.

We knew some of their type back then in school, they'll make you think you lack sense by not joining in their foolishness when in reality they were walking bags of emptiness.

No R..I. P for any of you. My heart bleeds for your parents. God help them go through this.

People did not start having sex or even orgies today, and people did not start taking tramadol and weed today. How come this one killed 4 people instantly? When did sex or tramadol start killing 4 people instantly?...

The tragedy of Africa is that we are too lazy to investigate anything, so we just jump into quick conclusions and then begin to judge and preach moral lessons. And that's how more people end up dying over avoidable things... Nobody really knows what killed those kids, but everyone is just content with jumping on the bandwagon and judging them for moral vices. Even the so called police after concluding their so called investigations will end up copying and pasting the same comments from threads like this and present it as official findings.

There are 1001 things that could have killed those 4 people; it could be some form of poisoning, it could just be that the drug they used was fake (and might just kill another person if this isnt investigated), it could be outright murder, it could also very likely be carbon monoxide from generator fumes, it could just be anything.

bjtinz:
Which one be thorough job again? They were binging on sex (FOURSOME) , hard drugs, weed and 'soapy'. On its own, each can kill, but when combined?? hmmm

I know you might say your statement above is just a joke, but unfortunately, the reasoning behind this statement explains why nothing works well in Nigeria; we never investigate anything, so we keep repeating the same killer mistakes. Even the so called police after 'concluding their investigations' will end up copying and pasting the same comments from threads like this and present it as official findings.

The fact is that there are 1001 other that could have killed those 4 people; it could be some form of poisoning, it could be that the drug was fake, it could very likely be carbon monoxide from generator fumes, it could just be anything. But of course, tramadol, weed and sex were present at the scene, so therefore, END OF INVESTIGATION!! time to start preaching moral lessons. Every single person talking about this incident is 100% focused on the sex and drugs, not a single person seems to care to know what really happened.

People did not start having sex or even orgies today, and people did not start taking tramadol and weed today. How come this one killed 4 people instantly? When did sex or tramadol start killing 4 people instantly?

CyynthiaKiss:
People of Aniocha (Oshimili and co)axis can never deny being Igbo. That identity crisis is reserved for Ika people. You don't need to lie because you are on nairaland.

Meanwhile, leave politics section.. It's beyond your brain capacity.

Okowa is Ika, Agbor precisely. So this is an interesting development.

RZArecta2:
Lol Ibom deep sea port is “under consideration” while that of Lekki and Badagry are being fast tracked in the same Lagos state. One Nigeria my big foot

Goes to show you how useless the governors in the SS are. You really cant blame Lagos governors for being more sensible leaders can you?