₦airaland Forum

eagleonearth:
What human beings should understand is that there are deities and there is a supreme Deity that has priests. His priests close to Him definitely hear him and relate with him. When God called people who don't tithe ROBBERS, he wasn't joking. If you rob a bank and get caught, you will be jailed in Kirikiri and you think you will go free when you rob the Almighty??. And if you're not born again, tithe or not, no heaven for you. If you're born again, it's devilish for you not to tithe. Take 9 portions and release just one. If you find it hard, you're not worthy of heaven. Critique me all you can, I've said what I said.

How on earth do people who call themselves Christians happily sleep at night after preaching the exact opposite of what is in the bible?... Since when did dreams and visions and revelations supersede what's clearly written in the bible?... What sort of end time Christianity is this?... What is left is for the Church council of 2018 to now set up a committee to re-write/upgrade the bible.

It is understood that the church needs funds to offset operational costs, it is also understood that giving a tithe/a tenth of one's income to the running of the church is a noble deed which God would certainly reward, but mounting the exalted altar and preaching to believers that whosoever does not pay tithe will be condemned to hell, that is obviously a lie from the pulpit.

By saying that a new covenant believer MUST pay a tithe in order to make heaven, that basically amounts to a denial of the sacrifice made by Christ on the cross. Any individual who says Christ's death on the cross did not 'fulfil the laws' on behalf of mankind, any person who still argues/preaches that Christ's death on the cross did not cancel the debt of the laws as conveyed in Colossians 2:14, such a person isn't different from the Jewish rabbis who till today do not still believe Jesus as the messiah; such a person is simply not a Christian.

The practice of MANDATORY tithing was a Mosaic laws given to the Jews, there is no other place where tithing was mandatory in the bible besides in the Mosaic laws. And that mosaic covenant ended the day Christ was nailed to the cross. In the book of Acts 15:5-11, after the Gentiles had received the word of God and were saved, the church council made up of the hypocritical Pharisees and Sadducees and Scribes brought up a decree that the Gentile Christians must be physically circumcised and made to keep the laws of Moses which includes the mandatory tithing requirements. But the Apostles led by Peter stood up in the council and shot down the proposition; these where the exact words of Apostle Peter: "Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?"

Any Christian who preaches today that we Nigerians as Gentile Christians are still under the Laws of Moses by threatening believers with Malachi 3:8-10, such a person is simply contradicting the Gospel of the original Apostles who were with Jesus. I find it extremely disheartening that we still have a lot of Nigerian ministers of the word who read these things but still go ahead to threaten believers with curses of the laws of Moses even though the bible in the book of Galatians 3:13 clearly states it that Christ through his death on the cross has saved us believers from the curse of the law.

The lure for money is truly capable of derailing anything.. God help us all!

All the unleashed demons flying about the ikeji festival arena now working overtime.... But Jehovah bu eze!

Orubebe01:
what's your take on this?

Idolatry

PRP

SalamRushdie:
I advise all sane people to abandon this thread for the OP because he doesn't know what he is saying but just fighting for his daily bread ..Commenting further on this thread would be an insult to common sense and intelligence.

In the first instance, no sane person would bother doubting or starting an argument over what the OP has said cos it's the simply truth; there was nothing out of place with what the president said. Only dumb fellows would attempt to counter the OP's words.. With this your post above, you're obviously attempting to be smart by running away (and advising others to do so too) because you know it's a silly thing trying to counter the OP.

5thElement:
How do you expect the people benefiting from the current structure to have the desire to restructure?

How do you build solid structure on weak foundations?

These current crop of politicians and public office holders are Nigeria's weak foundations.

They have to be uprooted first before anything can be built.

If Sowore ever wins this election, hopefully everyone will realize that you don't have to be a money bag or an old doldering fool or a young thug or a kleptomaniac to aspire to lead in this country.

Hopefully, the next elections after this coming one (provided Sowore wins) will see more youths taking over the political space.

Then we can now talk of restructuring.

Sowore doesnt even need to win for this to happen, all it would take is for him to shake the political sphere and that would encourage many others.

LordAdam16:
But but obailala, throwback, doctokwus, mynd44 et al believed the system could produce an incorruptible saint who wouldn't need corrupt money to emerge as the president and wouldn't protect the same corrupt elements.

I've said it repeatedly and anyone with a functional brain would clearly see that until we restructure, we'd continue having corrupt leaders. And that the most effective way to deal with corruption in this abhorrent system, pending when we restructure, is to build strong institutions and implement processes that prevent corruption; not unilaterally running at opposition figures.

-Lord

Even an elementary school pupil is aware that the entire Nigerian political space is soaked in corruption and as such, the most basic form of common sense judgement entails going for a less corrupt alternative if corruption is something that bothers you.

And yes, regionalising the country would reduce the desperation for power and the corrupt money based politics it breeds, but yet again, that wouldn't solve the corruption in the system overnight if notoriously corrupt breeds are still ferried to leadership positions.

factwriter:
How difficult is that to organise using another person, or you thought it was a passer by who crashed in on them (Abba and CTU team) then started taking pictures and uploading.

on a good day can a passer by just point a camera at a policeman and start taking photos

Crime bursting is more of intelligence work, more of undercover activities and less of CAT WALKING and PHOTO SHOOTING.

What do you think is the essence of having PLAIN CLOTHES policemen?

Kyari himself isnt just any policeman, he is known and he is popular. With that, there's really no way he can hide himself. He could have boys working for/with him who can go undercover, but he himself cant, because he is now a public figure.

...and lest I forget, yeah, he certainly isnt the one asking people to take pictures of him or post his photos online. Besides, several security topshots must have visited that scene, so you cant rule out the presence of pressmen in the area.

doctokwus:
This Kyari seems to like publicity too much.
You should not be too publicity loving in the discharge of your professional job as a policeman.
He has just started investigating and he is covering and soliciting this much publicity.What now happens if he solves the crime,probably he would want to appear on CNN,BBC,Aljazeera and AL Arabia tvs.

Kyari is good at his job and his reputation precedes him. Like they say, a good babalawo doesnt need billboards; people will do the adverts for him. Abba Kyari isnt the one using a phone to take pictures of himself doing his job, he also isnt the one who came and posted the pictures online, and neither is he the Nairaland MOD who pushed this to the front page.

Lol... politics, once you smile with a politician in public, just sit back and wait for what falls on you.

The kind of crude servile politics we practice in Nigeria is nauseating. What on earth is wrong or offensive with what the man said?... What is inappropriate about saying a person is incompetent? Should a person be above criticism simply because he's president?

lalasticlala:
A Nairalander who seriously needs advice sent in this mail. Please read and advise her. Thanks


"I Am still in love with my ex but I am married to a stranger


I wish to seek advice from nairalanders. I will accept insults. I just got married 2 months ago.

Let me start by saying I dated my ex for 4 years. We loved ourselves but you know as the year went by, my ex started showing some attitudes like hiding his phone when sleeping. Also his parents came up that we can't marry, simply becauss I am not same state with him.

While all this played out, this friend of mine connected me to a guy whom came back from abroad to marry. I saw the guy but didn't like him but before we met. I already informed my parents about this guy from abroad who likes me a lot. Without seeking for my approval. My parents got carried away and insisted that it's him they want, not my ex anymore. Out of fustration and pressure I married this new guy but I feel no love for him. My ex also wants me back and I want same because I love him.

I plan to divorce my husband because I can't stand that he Will be my husband for life. I don't love him.

Please advise me."

From what I've learnt through life, the majority of women usually love only one person at a time. From what you've said here, your husband doesnt seem to have done anything wrong, you just dont love him, and that's simply because you're still in love with your ex. And as long as your ex still lives and you still talk to him, you will never love your husband no matter how wonderfully good he is to you. As long as your ex is still in the picture, you will never genuinely see anything good about your husband; you will judge him ruthlessly for every little meaningless mistake he makes and he will keep wondering what he's done wrong.

It seems your mind is already made up to leave your husband and go to your ex, but that's a risky move that may or may not ruin you. If that's what you believe would give you happiness, I wish you well, but if you want to find happiness in your current home, the only advice I have is for you to completely cut out your ex from the picture; i.e. completely stop thinking of him, severe every single communication, discard everything you have which reminds you of your past relationship etc. The only time you can love your husband and find happiness in your new home is when you discard the old dude and stop judging/comparing the new guy with the old.

grandstar:
You first need to understand that I am apolitical. I don't even vote. So I am speaking from a strictly independent point of view. I can as well provide such views about the Ghanaian or Argentine economies.

However, in 2015, if I was told which of the 2 candidates I would have preferred between Jonathan and Buhari, Buhari would have been my No.1 choice hands down. So, my criticism should be seen in a rather constructive light rather than petty bias.

Why do I blame Buhari for the recession, for the collapse of the economy and for even the present dire state?

Let me use an illustration

Imagine everyday, you had a N1,000,000 with you and you went to the black market to buy $10,000. What will the exchange rate be? Most likely N100 to $1.00. And it has been like this for a long time.

One day, you go to the market with your usual 1m and want to buy your $10,000. However, the traders say there is not much dollars available and all you can get is $7,000. If you choose to buy the $7,000, will they sell it to you at the same rate of N100 to $1 or will they ask for a mark up? I am sure you will say they will of course demand a higher price for the $7,000. The price will not remain the same.

Well, Buhari said it must remain the same. By fire by force, it must remain the same.He said he does not believe in the depreciation or devaluation of the currency. who gives a damn what you believe? Market forces will reign supreme.

Upon assumption of power, the continual depreciation of the Naira which you acknowledged was occuring during the last months of the Jonathan administration due to the declining dollar inflow into the country due to the rapidly collapsing oil price was put to a halt.

Buhari hijacked forex policy from the semi-autonomous CBN and fixed the Naira at 197 to $1. Since nature says the Naira should continuously continue to lose value due to declining dollar inflow, it was a recipe for disaster. Before long, the CBN could no longer satisfy the demand for forex. Businessmen turned to the thinly traded black market and the Naira value started crashing against the dollar.

The overvalued official exchange rate discouraged forex inflow and chased away foreign investors. To understand why, imagine your uncle sent you $100 through WU and your bank offered you 19,700 at the official rate. Meanwhile, the black market rate is N300. Will you be willing to exchange? Will you want to bring your dollars in? If you at $100 can not afford to make losses on your money, is it someone with a $100m?

The artificial scarcity of forex caused by his ineptitude deprived companies of much needed foreign exchange and before long they started collapsing, their collapse devastating other businesses as well, triggering a severe recession.

Lamido Sanusi was relentless in condemning Buhari's exchange rate policies. He was seething. Other economist refused to keep quiet. Soludo and Utomi condemned his statist policies.

The condemnation of Buhari isn't personal but strictly business.

The depreciation of the Naira during the last months of Jonathan admin was in order. Dollar inflow was dropping very fast. Buhari should have let the market do its work but he interfered ignorantly, his cure was worse than the disease itself.

If you owned a $1b company and you wanted someone to head it, will you simply choose someone who is 100% honest but has never run a N1M company before? Do you think this will be wise?

The stock market collapsed to a 3 month market low upon Buhari's announcement that he is running for a second term. That is how little faith the business community has in his policies. It was a vote of no confidence.

No one is shirking off Jonathan's lapses but they are a poor excuse for Buhari's failures.

I will share this same reply with all those who replied me.

You have made a very good point. The refusal to let the Naira float freely caused a huge problem.

BadBradley:
I do not debate on the solutions, long or short term, of making the Naira work.

I'm citing instances where the government promised to stabilise the dollar and the other notorious retárd is denying it.

Of course that's a standard promise made by every government, including the current govt.; i.e. to strenghten the Naira and boost the economy.

BadBradley:
if someone publishes in national dailies that your mom birthed you in a whorehouse in a cloud of father obscurity and your first toys were condom packets and you neither dispel or sought redress then it is true.

Mind, some media houses errornously reported the President said he would make the Naira one with the dollar and the APC and information minister quickly came to debunk the claim in a press release.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/apc-never-promised-to-make-naira-equal-to-dollar/amp/

I am asking you why has the presidency not deny claims by all media houses that he promised to improve on the fate of the Naira like they so aptly did on the 1 Naira to 1 dillar misquote?

The link above showed the APC admitting tacitly to this.

Mr. Nairaland N-power recruit.

There are different ways to improve the value of the Naira, 1 way is to pumb in dollars from the foreign reserves into the streets recklessly as was done in the last 20 years; that could 'quickly' retirn the Naira to where it was in early 2015. The second way is to 'gradually' discourage the import culture and encourage exports.

Now if the current govt/CBN wants to apply the quick route which os to pump forex into the market, with the current $47billion reserve and with the current stability in oil price, the CBN can comfortably inject more dollars into the system every month and return the Naira to N200/$1. But to what end exactly?... That will only take Nigerians back to the crazy import culture and would discourage the current boost in agriculture and other exports. The Naira has been overvalued for a long time and on the advice of economic experts, the CBN has intentionally maintained the value at N360 to a dollar for about a year now. Strenghtening the Naira in a 'sustainable' way cannot be done overnight.

grandstar:
Angola's economy has been badly managed from time immemorial especially with socialist spirit.

It was made was by the endemic corruption and looting by the previous government which had been in power for over 30years.

For such a badly run economy to have its currency just worsen past the naira in the depth of its exposes the depth of Buharis economic mismanagement. The Naira shouldn't have lost more than 30% of its value if the economy were left in the hands of experts.

Instead, he with his lamentable understanding of economics imposed economic hubris on the country throwing it into a recession, the first in about 30years.

Nigeria's economy was already nosediving into the abyss before the current govt took over, and that was despite the economic experts who were in charge of things. This recurring argument that Buhari 'single-handedly' threw the economy into crisis is purely a case of politically influenced ignorance.

I'm not sure I understand how the 54.8% loss in value of Naira was calculated, I'm not an economist; but I remember the Naira was valued at about N160 to $1 sometime in mid-2014 just before oil prices began to crash. At the same period, Nigeria's foreign reserves was at about $40billion. Under the hands of economic experts, the reserve was drawn down massively in a desperate bid to save the Naira, as at May 2015, only a dangerously meagre $28.6billion was left but despite these efforts, the Naira nevertheless, crashed from N160 to N230, which by my simple layman's calculation represents a drop in value of 44%. Now may I also add that as at May'15, oil still sold at about $65.

Considering the above 'achievement' by economic experts (i.e. the Naira losing 44% despite relatively higher oil prices and over $10billion injected from the reserves to defend the Naira in 8 months), I hope some people can now see how pointless it is to directly compare the work of 'economic experts' to 'economic novices' who had absolutely nothing to defend the Naira despite oil price dropping to below $30.

With the current figure in the foreign reserves and the current stability in oil price, if the CBN wants to return the NAIRA to where it was in early 2015 (i.e. N200/$), it can achieve that effortlessly by dolling out some dollars to the market every month as was the tradition before now.

But then, to what end exactly? For a country that produces nothing, that would amount to subsidizing imports again and the little boost which has been received in agriculture and some other export products would be eroded again as Nigerians return to their import culture. Fact of the matter is that the Naira was overvalued, and (I believe on expert advice) the CBN has chosen to maintain the Naira at the current N360/$1 as has been the case for about a year now.

Ayotemide:
' Budget of Kinetic crystallization'!!

Like how on earth does He get to even name it that, what kind of Nonsense could that even mean??

He's a professor of Chemistry

PrecisionFx:
I dont have a doctor sir.

I also don't go to the hospital.

okay, maybe you can try your landlord.

PrecisionFx:
Why did Buhari stop work at the 2nd Niger bridge

Why don't you ask your doctor that question when next you visit the hospital?

JAMESOJAY:
I worked with the former president Good luck Jonathan. The roads this man is talking about
Was paid for in his tenure..Buhari has nothing to do with the roads he never did anything for the south east and south south..listen it not a joke cause am serious cause I have documents backing all I can said

Lol... Jona the great!

AkpaMgbor:
No you wouldn’t let your wife do it not because of Nigerians but because YOU are the hypocrite.

You certainly do not know the meaning of the word 'hypocrite' which you just used.

For me, there's nothing wrong with the picture; beautiful art. But I wouldn't let my wife do this because I know how Nigeria is filled with toxic hypocrites.

neezar:
in a free and fair election, Buhari won't win, Do u know ow many people wanna vote this man out

The people around YOU, and the people you meet online daily (which to a large extent are still like you) might want to vote buhari out. But no matter how loudly these set of people shout and shout (emotions), it doesnt necessarily make them more than the millions (numbers) of people up north (mainly illiterates) who are ready to die for buhari come what may.

Like I said before, elections are a game of numbers. Buhari will definitely not be able to get the number of votes he got in 2015 both from the north, SW and middle belt, but where the problem lies is that he is no longer contesting against a Jonathan who was massively loved by millions of Jonathanians from the south. So the real question is, if Jonathan and the giant PDP apparatus was able to pull over 12million votes in 2015, which prospective candidate so far do you think can pull that number? Atiku? Sowore? Fayose? Duke (wouldnt even be allowed to win primaries)?

neezar:
In as much most nigerians want Buhari out, let's stop deceiving our selves, These guys will massively rig the next election, We are just voting to fulfill all righteousness, Voting doesn't count in Nigeria again, Go to the north and see how little kids get registered for the upcoming election, But what we have here is tribal war between the yorubas and igbos, Instead of us to bring out a credible candidate, we are here throwing tantrums at each other, That's why the north won't take us as serious people.

I don't mind if an igbo or yoruba man gets into the affairs of the country in 2023 and those of u northerners creating igbo and yoruba monikers just to ignite the fight, Your doom is near.

Buhari will win in 2019 even in a very free and fair election. You know why?... It's because there are simply no alternative candidates challenging him. Elections aren't won or lost by overflowing emotions, it's a game of numbers, and there's no other prospective candidate so far who can boast of the numbers which Buhari still has in his pocket. #Fact

There goes the reason why the black world cannot be great, and will remain a shithole. A big man can never be punished in our part of the world! And as long as no one ever gets punished in situations like these, it's a guarantee that it will happen again.

donstan18:
Can plastic surgery fix virginity and common sense?

greiboy:
Virginity
broken heart

There's something called hymen reconstruction surgery. So I just helped you guys strike off that bit from your comment above.

remi1444:
I've never attended another church since my mom birthed me. I've been automated to that which i was born into.

Means you've never stepped away from home.

emmachukwu99:
To answer your question, No am not describing myself.

Am referring to you.

You definitely must have been referring to your immediate family and ur generation, not me #Back2Sender

Meanwhile just looking at the date on this thread got me confused; did he just escape from where he was bound in chains by the tomb? Or could it be that after 2 years, someone just decided to start skipping his medications?

...And this is because the presidency and the entire APC appatatus hired only buffoons as media and spokespersons.

Lol...