₦airaland Forum

Wetin concern us? We are just Atikulating...

Lai Mohammed has gotten new appointment as the "High Priest of the APC cult of Fake News".
Hahahahahaha!

That serves him right.
Shehu Sani still have the opportunity to be Atikulated like other good Nigerians.

Any state APC enters will become a war zone

You mean you are not yet Atikulated?

1. Segun Sowunmi @Atikulated = 3 pts
2. Festus Keyamo @Bubuyaya = 0 pt
True or False?

Buhari must go

It is better to vote the Prince of corruption as our new president than to vote the father killers and hardship.

Atiku we know!

The main problem this man called Kwankwaso has is greediness. He is too greedy. No wonder many people vote against him on the PDP primary in PH.

Olohunjedalo:
Those are not Nigerians but ipobians

Must you display your stupidity and your hatred for Igbos

The Nigerian Egusi soup, prepared with
melon seeds , is prepared by most tribes in Nigeria in many different ways. It is known as Miyan Gushi in Hausa, Ofe Egusi in Igbo and Efo Elegusi in Yoruba.

Egusi soup is also one of the most popular soups, if not the most popular for all Nigerians and non-Nigerians that like Nigerian fufu recipes.

This one here is what I call the Caking Method of cooking Egusi Soup (the Egusi Before Oil method). Other methods are:

•Fried Egusi Soup : where the Egusi is fried in palm oil before other ingredients are added. I also call this one the Oil Before Egusi Method.

•Akpuruakpu Egusi: where the ground egusi is molded into balls and cooked in the soup such that you will be eating the egusi balls like meat while enjoying the meal. The surrounding egusi in the soup is prepared using the caking method. Go check it out.

Ingredients
4½ cups (600g) Egusi (Melon) seeds
2 cooking spoons red palm oil
Beef: Best cut and Shaki (cow tripe)
Fish: Dry Fish and Stock Fish
3 tablespoons ground crayfish
Pepper and Salt (to taste)
Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leaves, spinach or bitter leaves
3 small stock cubes
1 Ogiri Okpei (traditional locust bean seasoning: optional)

Important cooking equipment
Spice grinder for grinding egusi (melon) seeds:


Before you cook Egusi Soup (Caking Method)
1. Before preparing the soup, soak the dry fish for about half an hour. If you are using the very tough stockfish, boil it for 20 minutes and leave in the pot with the hot water to soak for about an hour. If using the softer stockfish, you can just soak them in cool water till you can break them apart with your hands.

2. When the fish and stockfish are soft, debone and break them into sizeable chunks.

3. Much closer to your cooking time, grind the egusi with a dry mill. Grind the crayfish and the dry pepper separately and set aside. Wash the vegetable to be used. Cut into tiny pieces.

4. Boil the shaki, stock fish and dry fish in 1 litre of water with the stock cubes till they are well done. First sign of a done shaki is that the cuts will start curling on itself.

5. Wash the beef to be used for the soup, add it to the pot and cook on medium heat till done.

Cooking Directions: Caking Method
This method produces a healthier egusi soup as there is no frying involved. It requires less oil too.

1. In this method, as soon as the shaki, fish and meat are done, remove them from the stock (water used in cooking the meat and fish) and place in a different pot or plate.

2. Add the ground egusi to the stock and stir. If the stock from cooking your meat and fish is not enough to give you a medium consistency, add some water to get the consistency of evaporated milk or a bit thicker. It will not be as smooth as evaporated milk though.

3. Cover and cook till the egusi cakes. Stir and add a little bit more water. watch it closely so that it does not burn.

4. Repeat step 3, adding only a small quantity of water at a time. After about 25 minutes, you will notice the clear egusi oil coming to the surface of the soup.

5. Add the red palm oil and bitter leaves (if it is your choice of vegetable), pepper and salt to taste and cook for about 7 minutes. You know it is good to continue when the palm oil and egusi forms a good blend of light yellow colour.

6. Add the cooked meat and fish. If using pumpkin leaves or any other soft vegetable, add it at this time and stir the soup.

7. Add salt to your taste, stir and leave to simmer for 2 minutes maximum.

8. Turn off the heat. Leave to stand for about 5 minutes before serving.

The egusi soup is ready to be served with Garri (Eba) , Semolina Fufu, Amala,
Cassava Fufu or Pounded Yam

Enjoy yourself!

Did he climb there to Protest Buhari's Re-election Bid or climbed to steal something? Just asking.

To contest under which party? just asking.

Yes I agree with you, no more corrupt minded persons in APC because your Chief of staff Abba Kyari who is accused of collecting bribe of N29m., your ex SGF Barbachir Lawal who cut grass with N250m,Maina, Daura the ex DSS boss, Malami your AGF, your finance minister and co have all left APC.

Rubbish! When all these people I mentioned here leave APC I will take you serious and will know you are saying the truth

Yes I agree with you, no more corrupt minded persons in APC because your Chief of staff Abba Kyari who is accused of collecting bribe of N29m., your ex SGF Barbachir Lawal who cut grass with N250m,Maina, Daura the ex DSS boss, Malami your AGF, your finance minister and co. they have left APC. Rubbish! When all these people I mentioned here leave APC I will take you serious and will know you saying the truth

Yes! The weakest politicians that give you, oshomole and APC sleepless night have left the party abi?

All Past Criminals (APC)

All Past Criminals

I never see a corrupt government like this of Buhari and APC. Mr integrity and saints cabinets.

Ballmer:
Foolish Igbos n Ipob will disagree n claim this piece of shii called Saraki will make a beta president than Buhari

Must you display your foolishness and your hatred for Igbos while making your useless comment?

Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central District, has picked the nomination and expression of interest forms, indicating his interest to retain his seat at the National Assembly.

He is seeking to contest on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

***But the question is : Will Governor El-Rufai allow him to come back to the Senate?

My own Answer: The existence of so many religions and the claim that all religions lead to God without question confuses many who are earnestly seeking the truth about God, with the end result sometimes being that some despair of ever reaching the absolute truth on the subject. Or they end up embracing the universalist claim that all religions lead to God. Of course, skeptics also point to the existence of so many religions as proof that either you cannot know God or that God simply does not exist.

Romans 1:19-21 contains the biblical explanation for why there are so many religions. The truth of God is seen and known by every human being because God has made it so. Instead of accepting the truth about God and submitting to it, most human beings reject it and seek their own way to understand God. But this leads not to enlightenment regarding God, but to futility of thinking. Here is where we find the basis of the “many religions.”

Many people do not want to believe in a God who demands righteousness and morality, so they invent a God who makes no such requirements. Many people do not want to believe in a God who declares it impossible for people to earn their own way to heaven. So they invent a God who accepts people into heaven if they have completed certain steps, followed certain rules, and/or obeyed certain laws, at least to the best of their ability. Many people do not want a relationship with a God who is sovereign and omnipotent. So they imagine God as being more of a mystical force than a personal and sovereign ruler.
The existence of so many religions is not an argument against God's existence or an argument that truth about God is not clear. Rather, the existence of so many religions is demonstration of humanity's rejection of the one true God. Mankind has replaced Him with gods that are more to their liking. This is a dangerous enterprise. The desire to recreate God in our own image comes from the sin nature within us—a nature that will eventually “reap destruction” (Galatians 6:7-.

Do all religions lead to God? No. All people—religious or otherwise—will stand before God some day (Hebrews 9:27), but religious affiliation is not what determines your eternal destiny. Only faith in Jesus Christ will save. “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:12). It’s as simple as that. Only Christianity—faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ—leads to God’s forgiveness and eternal life. No one comes to the Father except through the Son (John 14:6). It does make a difference what you believe. The decision to embrace the truth about Jesus Christ is important. Eternity is an awfully long time to be wrong.

**What is your stake?

My own answer: For various reasons, couples want separate bank accounts. Money is the number-one cause of problems in marriage, and because the issue of finances is the most common source of arguments in marriage, engaged couples would do well to take the time to decide how these things will be settled prior to entering into marriage. The Bible speaks very clearly about the joining of a man and a woman (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5; Ephesians 5:25-33), and those verses all show that the two shall become one entity, with the man as the spiritual leader and the woman in submission to him. This is the principle which should be brought to bear upon the issue of finances in general and separate bank accounts in particular.

A couple who are truly “one” will be one in all areas of their marriage. Most importantly, they will be of one mind regarding spiritual matters. Men are called to be "priests" of their homes (1 Corinthians 11:3), which means that they are to be the spiritual leaders and to bring together the family to serve the Lord. Wives are to submit to their husbands’ leadership, helping to bring up children in the “training and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). In parenting, as in all things within a marriage, unity and harmony are essential.

This unity of spirit is to be present in temporal matters as well, where husband and wife are again to be of one mind and one heart. This means that money and possessions are seen as belonging to both partners equally. Just as there is no “your child and my child,” there should be no distinction between “my money and your money.” All is shared equally in a true partnership, and no partnership is more equal than two people united in Christ. Therefore, there is really no reason to have separate bank accounts. Usually the situation of separate bank accounts occurs when there is a severe issue with trust, and in such a case there are greater problems in the marriage than just where the money resides. Lack of trust is deadly to a marriage, and if it exists, prayer is crucial to seek the wisdom of the Lord (James 1:5) on how to resolve this. The Bible says that we are one with our spouses, and so we should be resolved to show this unity to our children, our friends, our church, and the watching world. Where conflict over money exists, there is an opportunity to grow in love and most importantly in trust to bring together the entire family for God's purpose.

***Your own answer?

LoJ:
Did Adam Abraham Moses and others follow that procedure?

For Moses, Yes!
Moses follow the procedure because the wife Zipporah was officially handed over to Moses by her father. Genesis 2:21 Moses accepted the invitation, and he settled there with him. In time, Reuel gave Moses his daughter Zipporah to be his wife.

For Abraham, Bible did not give the detail of how he married Sarah. But through his son Isaac own you will know that he followed the procedure.

Seun:
What does God require in order to consider a marriage to be valid, so that having sex won't be a sin? Do you have to have a public ceremony in the church building? Do you have to register your marriage with the government at a registry? Is traditional marriage considered valid in God's eyes. Because marriage existed long before all these things. So what is the essential element that causes God to give you a green card for sex?

Because in Genesis, it seems that once a woman moved into a man's house and he started calling her his wife, then she was his wife. Simple. From this perspective, the "sin" of cohabitation before marriage seems like something silly that we created by making marriage so complicated.

I think you got it wrong.

(1) In the case of Adam and Eve

The book of Genesis made us to know that God made Eve from Adam's rib and later brought her to Adam and officially handed Eve over to Adam as his wife.
It is this official hand over that made the marriage a legal union. Without official hand over from the bride's family, the marriage is illegal
[Genesis 2:22] Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.

(2) In the case of Jacob having Rachel and Leah as his wives.

Jacob worked for Laban for seven years as a bride prize to have one of his daughter Rachel as his wife but Laban gave him Leah. Because of the love Jacob have for Rachel, he has no other option than to work for another seven years making it 14years as a bride prize just to have his heart desire Leah as his wife. Jacob didn't just take Rachel and make her his wife because he loves her and want to live her. But Jacob has to go through process for the marriage to be legal. Without the necessary requirements which is the bride prize and official hand over, the marriage is illegal.
[Genesis 29:18] Since Jacob was in love with Rachel, he told her father, “I’ll work for you for seven years if you’ll give me Rachel, your younger daughter, as my wife.”

(3) *Customary bride prize*

God gave this instructions to the people of Israel about having sex with a virgin who is not engaged. What make her a virgin is not having any sexual relationship with any man. If you have sex with her you must marry her.
[Exodus 22:16-17] “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has sex with her, he must pay the customary bride price and marry her. 17 But if her father refuses to let him marry her, the man must still pay him an amount equal to the bride price of a virgin.

Karma is a theological concept found in the Buddhist and Hindu religions. It is the idea that how you live your life will determine the quality of life you will have after reincarnation. If you are unselfish, kind, and holy during this lifetime, you will be rewarded by being reincarnated (reborn into a new earthly body) into a pleasant life. However, if you live a life of selfishness and evil, you will be reincarnated into a less-than-pleasant lifestyle. In other words, you reap in the next life what you sow in this one. Karma is based on the theological belief in reincarnation. The Bible rejects the idea of reincarnation; therefore, it does not support the idea of karma.

Hebrews 9:27 states, “Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment…” This Bible verse makes clear two important points which, for Christians, negate the possibility of reincarnation and karma. First, it states that we are “destined to die once,” meaning that humans are only born once and only die once. There is no endless cycle of life and death and rebirth, an idea inherent in the reincarnation theory. Second, it states that after death we face judgment, meaning that there is no second chance, like there is in reincarnation and karma, to live a better life. You get one shot at life and living it according to God’s plan, and that is it.

The Bible talks a lot about reaping and sowing. Job 4:8 says, “As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.” Psalm 126:5 says, “Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.” Luke 12:24 says, “Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!” In each of these instances, as well as all the other references to reaping and sowing, the act of receiving the rewards of your actions takes place in this life, not in some future life. It is a present-day activity, and the references make it clear that the fruit you reap will be commensurate with the actions you have performed. In addition, the sowing you perform in this life will affect your reward or punishment in the afterlife.

This afterlife is not a rebirth or a reincarnation into another body here on earth. It is either eternal suffering in hell (Matthew 25:46) or eternal life in heaven with Jesus, who died so that we might live eternally with Him. This should be the focus of our life on earth. The apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 6:8-9, “The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Finally, we must always remember that it was Jesus whose death on the cross resulted in the reaping of eternal life for us, and that it is faith in Jesus that gives us this eternal life. Ephesians 2:8-9 tells us, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.” Therefore, we see that the concept of reincarnation and karma is incompatible with what the Bible teaches about life, death, and the sowing and reaping of eternal life.

The answer to this question depends somewhat on what is meant by “living together.” If it means having sexual relations, it is definitely wrong. Premarital sex is repeatedly condemned in Scripture, along with all other forms of sexual immorality (Acts 15:20; Romans 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; 7:2; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7). The Bible promotes complete abstinence outside of (and before) marriage. Sex before marriage is just as wrong as adultery and other forms of sexual immorality, because they all involve having sex with someone you are not married to.

If “living together” means living in the same house, that is perhaps a different issue. Ultimately, there is nothing wrong with a man and a woman living in the same house—if there is nothing immoral taking place. However, the problem arises in that there is still the appearance of immorality (1 Thessalonians 5:22; Ephesians 5:3), and it could be a tremendous temptation for immorality.

The Bible tells us to flee immorality, not expose ourselves to constant temptations to immorality (1 Corinthians 6:18). Then there is the problem of appearances.
A couple who is living together is assumed to be sleeping together—that is just the nature of things. Even though living in the same house is not sinful in and of itself, the appearance of sin is there. The Bible tells us to avoid the appearance of evil (1 Thessalonians 5:22; Ephesians 5:3), to flee from immorality, and not to cause anyone to stumble or be offended. As a result, it is not honoring to God for a man and a woman to live together outside of marriage.

Those police men, the taxi driver and the informant are working for Saraki to ridicule President Buhari government. Ndi ara!

Your baby daddy or your husband? What a rubbish!

End time: People now celebrate pregnancy without a husband.

Shehu Sani could not cross the RED SEA just as Rita Onochie told him when he said they were on the red sea about to cross. Lol! Red Sea swallowed him.