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missimelda01:
I was honest enough to admit that I found the prayer point quite funny and that doesn't stop me from asking a question...chill sometimes, life is not so serious.

It is my dear especially for those you watched on that video. You may not understand the ridicule, pain and trauma they are passing through at the moment from their families, friends and even their neighbours. Most times when people resort to prayers to solve a lingering problem, it means that they are helpless. I wish you understand this.

missimelda01:
I saw a trending video where women were seriously praying for a husband... I found it funny, I won't lie

But
As Christians, if we pray about everything we love, why can't we pray about our life partners? It's a very important part of our lives and I feel it shouldn't be neglected.

So, for the Christians in a relationship/marriage, did you pray about your current partner and would you say your prayer was answered?

You found people praying about their personal problem funny? The same way you found their heart desire funny just pray yours won't be funny either. Whoever posted that video violated their religious privacy and you are here to draw inspiration from it to open a thread to question those who are married if their spouses are answered prayer. I am sorry for you because you are not married as your moniker suggest and yet you want to find out as a 'chriatian' if their prayer was answered?

What a shame! Russia is finished. After this war the respect they use to have will be gone. Even the Iranian foreign minister who has been looking up to Russia as a bulwark to the the western nations is watching the entire scenario in awe. Sometimes it is best not to attack who you think you are stronger than. Putin will live to regret this singular miscalculation for the rest of his hold onto power.

This is wrong. Whoever posted this video is infringing on their religious privacy.

Good one from OPM.

maestroferddi:
High-handedness is condemnable.

However, you will not understand because you are not in Israel.

If you are surrounded by millions of people who have sworn to wipe you off the face of the earth and are very much impatient to carry out their threats, you would take your national security seriously...

These protesters ptobably have ulterior motives...that was why Israeli forces ensured that they were not allowed to breach the security cordon.

If you have over 50 years experience in dealing with extremism, maybe you will understand...

This is the most intelligent submission on this thread. Thumb up for you. I love it when people like you comment on nairaland. Keep it up bros.

God1000:
exactly

Just like what is happening in the south east. When you kill innocent people it leads to resentment and rebellion. Her Death would lead to more intifada that is why I believe that it would be foolish for the Israeli forces to have killed her.

God1000:
I've been following this ugly incident closely together with ms Deborah.

She was shot dead last week by Israeli forces in line of her duty while reporting from the west Bank.

Mourners carrying her casket were also attacked, beaten and humiliated.

This has infuriated Al Jazeera so much that they are now digging out all the atrocities Israel has committed from 1947- till today.

The slain journalist was a Palestinian American, she was a Christian as well.

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

How are you sure she was killed by the Israeli forces? I am not holding brief for the Bennett's government but I think there is need for an international inquiry about this incident before coming to a conclusion on a sensitive issue like this. Moreover, this woman has been covering news for over 25years now so why the need to kill her now? Her Death was actually painful to those of us who watch how she reports the story on al- Jazeera tv. May her soul rest in peace.

LUAN:
For the past 3night i have been having sleeping difficulties due to the death of the christian girl killed by some muslim fanatics in sokoto, I am so much in pain right from Thursday, even when I was in church this morning I couldn't concentrate m, the thought of her death has occupied my mind. The pain she went through before she gave up the ghost is something that really made me shed tears , the most painful part is that she was been killed by her classmates, this are the people she shared something in common, the lecture hall, same school, same goal to graduate together in few yrs to come, same whatsapp group, I guess they used to joke about things together, writing same exams, etc,..is so so painful, I think she used to feel safe being among them. She died in the hand of her schoolmate who supposed to be of help in one way or the other to her. I am really in pain, through out last night I couldn't sleep upto 3hrs.. how do I get over it?

That's the humanity in you. It's quite painful for one to be killed in the midst of those you share the same dream with. It will fizzle out with time just relax yourself.

phenzy:
Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder rn

For how many years?

Xixtie:
Two things are certain; 1) You don't understand Hausa language and 2) your eyes aren't good.

Validated:
I am curious to know if trully this post was made by el-Refai

Yes he actually did.

You are the Al-Capone of sleaze. What a mission statement.

omenka:
Nice one. If I were innoson, I would also not bother investing a penny in the East any further given their penchant for destruction, dismemberment of "Sabos", and mutilation of female genital organs.

Waiting for the ipobic fleas to invade my mentions.

You are actually the flea here if you actually know bwhat fleas do to their host. They are parasites and they remain so till death separate them from the dead animal. You have a serious problem that needs attention. Why are you so fixated about anything Igbo and not the array of problems afflicting your region? You are so narrow minded and bluff about it openly. You go die one day on Igbo matter.
SMH

drmuchin:
THE WAY OF JESUS LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE
THE WAY OF MUHAMMAD IS TANTAMOUNT TO JIHAD, SUICIDE BOMBING, BEHEADING, BURNING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE ETC

The write up made an interesting piece from the beginning because he lace it with the yoruba traditional folklore. The writer made a mess of this beautiful piece of work because he could not hide his deep seated hatred for the Igbo aspirants in APC. The three aspirants he mentioned as not capable and worthy to contest the presidential primaries in buhari's govt. are his Igbo ministers and the CBN governor!

This is the highest level of tribal bigotry I have ever seen in Nigeria and yet we are talking of a unified south.

SHAME ON ADEDAYO.

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Emefiele The Tortoise Wants to Marry the King’s Daughter by Festus Adedayo
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As the melee I describe as the Godwin Emefiele malady gains traction, one anecdote that seems to capture it can be found in the song of late Ibadan, Oyo State-born Yoruba Awurebe music maestro, Dauda Epo Akara. The malady is unexampled for its cunning.
In it, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Emefiele, seeks to disadvantage others in the scramble for Nigeria’s Number One office, simply because he holds the key to the Nigerian vault and opens it at will to President Muhammadu Buhari, his home and a coterie of hangers-on.
Epo Akara, in one of his vinyl, had told the story of Tortoise, the Master of cunning, who wanted to marry the Princess of his village whose name nobody knew. As the contest for the heart of the Princess got hotter, the King announced that the man who would win his beautiful daughter’s heart must tell the world her name. After wracking his brain endlessly, one day, Tortoise devised a stratagem.

So he woke up very early and scurried to the farm. He then headed for a mango tree which he climbed and hid himself. This was the tree the Princess and his sisters often went in search of its fruits. When he eventually sighted them at the feet of the tree, Tortoise, armed with mango fruits he had soaked in honey, threw the fruits down.

As he did so, one of the sisters, picking the mango fruits up, quickly called on the Princess whose heart was being contested for, shouting, “Opobipobi, come and see a sweet mango!” Tortoise then quickly ran to the king’s palace with drummers and singers making a ring round him and asked the King to bring the Princess out for betrothals.

As the circus of the Muhammadu Buhari presidential years winds to a close, a fitting descriptive image of the administration will likely be the mythical head of Medusa. In Greek mythology, the Medusa, also called Gorgon, was a monstrous winged female which, in place of hairs, had living venomous snakes.

Anyone who was unlucky to gaze into the Medusa’s eyes would instantly turn into stone. Like the Medusa, virtually everything the Buhari government laid its gaze upon in the last seven years lost its savour. A badly hit economy under Goodluck Jonathan is today comatose; security that was on the verge of hitting the canvass is gasping for life and society, under which politics is woven, is such that, in the words of Oscar Wilde, the gutter and the things that live in it fascinate.

In the last two weeks, politics, with Buhari superintending, has faced a major deconstruction. The jostle for the presidential office examples this. Though you will say that the shenanigan of political office is as old as Nigerian politics, what Nigerians have witnessed in the last few weeks is weird, grim and combined, have deconstructed the highest office in the land as a hub of dirty and petty intrigues.

First was the jacking up of expression of interest fee to N100 million by the Buhari party, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in a way that has made fatal mockery of purity in politics. For a man whose catchphrase was integrity, that Buhari’s party would confer the jostle for his office as an exclusive preserve of those who have stolen huge sums from the Nigerian coffers is a major deconstruction of what he hyped as his political philosophy. It is so bad that known malefactors who stole this country blind, cunningly rationalizing where they got the humongous money paid to collect forms, claim that some unnamed proxies paid on their behalf.

The second deconstruction of the highest office in the land is the scramble of all manner of Charlie Chaplin characters to become Nigeria’s Number One citizen. It is such that two reasons have been adduced for the scramble: One, that Buhari had cheapened the worth of the office of Nigeria’s president to such an inconsequential level that anyone else would do.

This, Buhari did through his tooth-picking, indolent, government of you-may-jump-inside-the-lagoon-disposition-to-Nigeria’s-travails which he runs, so much that every chicken and cockerel feels that they could do better than him. Or that Buhari was bent on legitimizing the coronation of his eventual successor candidate and needed plural democratic contest as alibi. Nothing else seems capable of explaining this fervor for Aso Rock that is assuming the level of the scandalous.

The rat race to the Villa has provoked one of the most iconic comic reactions in Nigerian history, as well as the standing of democratic logic on its head. We began the circus with candidates whose emergence provoked mis-labeling. Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Yemi Osinbajo’s fans riled the public sphere with their very empty typecasts of who the duo were.

Thereafter, the list began to metastasize. You would think it was an ensemble of the travelling company of acrobats, clowns, and other entertainers. It seemed that the conditionality for being considered as aspirant for the Nigerian presidential office was for Charlie Chaplin himself to scan the aspirant for conformity with the rules of idiocy. Right there in the list are a number of discredited characters who would be stoned if they aspired to administer their local governments. At the last count, the APC alone has had not less than 30 aspirants, so much that, still in the words of Wilde, one either had to give up to them or give them up.

On the list, for example, is Chris Ngige, a man whose fatal handling of the crisis in our health sector as Minister of Labour has led to doctors leaving federal clinics in droves. Emeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, under whom our children are idling and roaming about on the streets, also purchased the N100 million form.

We also have Rotimi Amaechi, whose laughable but scornful ambition to administer Nigeria is as long as the huge debts his 19th century locomotives have excavated in the purse of Nigeria. The blood of those killed on the Kaduna-Abuja train had hardly coagulated when Amaechi, suddenly locating his consanguinity with the Igbo, began to run round the stadium of Abuja.

One thought Amaechi was a student of English Literature, especially with how he tried to activate relationship with the writer of the texts that apparently posed herculean to him in the Literature class, Wole Soyinka. Conflating the literal and metaphoric import of “running” should have been way off the ken of a graduate of English. Why mislabel running for Nigerian presidency with literal sprinting like a dispossessed on the field of athletics?

In saner societies, Buhari, with constitutional powers to sanction his ministers for being in possession of unexplained money and unexampled lust for power, especially with the ministers’ nil cognizable track record of performance, should have been the first to wield the big stick against those appointees. Why didn’t Mr. Integrity see the absence of integrity in a minister under him pulling off N100 million like one pulling a dry leaf off a tree and setting it alight in a barren presidential contest? Buhari could not and cannot, for some obvious reasons.

The first is that, in seven years, the president has allowed his appointees fester in their ignominious fare in office, without sanction. Reports of monumental corruption, rank indolence and wanton disrespect for rules fly about on these appointees with Buhari busy picking his teeth. By not replacing them in seven years, Buhari has lent official stamp to their sleaze and ill performance in office, basically adjudging them to have met his expectations.

Armed with this presidential assent on their rot, it is no wonder that the ministers are proceeding to the next level by seeking to replace their effete boss in office.
To worsen matters, Buhari has been at the vanguard of seeking constitutional lacuna and alibi as shield for these appointees, so that they can eat their cake and have it.

As we speak, none of these ministers contesting to be president or even the Attorney General of the Federation who is busy distributing state-of-the-art cars so that he can buy the Kebbi State gubernatorial ticket, has resigned their appointments.

This is in utter disregard for the immorality inherent in such gluttony. The norm in other democracies is that anyone with an eye on another office – except the presidency – should vacate the one he holds at the moment, in respect for equity and justice. Running a lax government exemplified by see-no-evil, say-no-evil, Buhari has played dumb to this moral assault.

The resultant effect is that office holders deploy perks of their offices to an advantage over others. While the constitution gives Osinbajo the right to stay in office while at the same time aspiring for the Nigerian Number One position, does it also give him the right to use presidential airplane, deploy aides who are paid for by the state and other paraphernalia, on a vote junket round Nigeria?

Of all these aspirations, apparently funneled by greed and over-bloated estimation of selves, the one that has astounded Nigerians the most is that of Godwin Emefiele. Dubbing himself the “Development Central Banker,” akin to that of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker named “God’s Banker” by the Italian press due to his close affinity with the Holy See, Calvi, native of Milan, was Chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, a bank that collapsed under one of Italy’s hugest political scandals. He was murdered in London in June 1982.

Like Calvi, Emefiele has sat on a Nigerian monetary policy which is high in theory but an unmitigated disaster in practice. Beginning his apex bank round in 2014 after a career in commercial banking, he is said to have held the otherwise tribally bigoted mind of Buhari captive.

Those who are in the know about this queer aspiration of his put it at the feet of an incongruously political management of the CBN and the reach of its policies in the past eight years. What Emefiele is about in the presidency is exemplified by a viral photograph of him groveling by one of Buhari’s Man Fridays, Mamman Daura. Emefiele is said to have acted as funnel to sieve Nigeria’s scarce forex inside the parachute of the cabal’s insatiable babanriga.

Outside of late Aba Kyari and in close contest with Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, no one in this government is said to have Emefiele’s access to Buhari. Considering Buhari’s renowned loath for the Igbo, it is one of the wonders of the world that a Delta Igbo at the apex of Nigeria’s cash cozens up to the Daura-born General with this baffling closeness.

The chemistry is said to be cash. First appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014, Emefiele’s retention by Buhari and ability to meander into his heart is said to be a function of his readiness to carry the can of Buhari’s spittle at all cost.

He enjoys so much relationship with Buhari that, in March 2021, when Hassan Mahmud, Director of Monetary Policy under him, attempted to stand up to him by suggesting that offshore investors be removed from purchasing Treasury bills within the CBN’s open market operations, Emefiele breathed down on him like a dinosaur and mowed him down like a matador. The fear of Emefiele is the beginning of wisdom in the Villa.

Emefiele’s economic and financial strategy which he self-tags as ‘heterodox’ or homegrown, has worsened the fate of the Naira as against other foreign currencies. Today, the Naira is struggling to be at par with the worthlessness of the Zimbabwean dollar.

He holds views on exchange rate policy and command economics that have individually benefitted a tiny strand of Buhari’s powerful kitchen cabinet. This readiness to grovel is regarded as the leitmotif of Emefiele’s wide-ranged acceptance by the cabal as one to perpetuate it in office long after exiting Aso Rock.

The reason why Buhari cannot wholly disclaim a vicarious responsibility for this flourishing of the worst of us aspiring for his office is that, virtually everyone who went to him to seek his consent to vie for Nigeria’s presidency is said to be greeted with the retort, “you have my support.” This is either a gross inability on Buhari’s part to argue otherwise, the subsisting evil of his infamous taciturnity or a wily attempt to populate the traffic for the office by his successor.

This will then ultimately confuse the process and give democratic legitimacy to his coronation of an anointed favourite.

On Friday, some proxies collected the N100 million expression of interest form of the APC for Emefiele. This audacity to contest for the Nigerian presidency by stealth has been effectively and robustly impugned by the governor of Ondo State, the indefatigable and fearless Rotimi Akeredolu.

In a statement he posted on his Twitter handle on Friday, Akeredolu called on Buhari to sack the CBN governor, except he immediately resigns his office. The SAN reeled into the Public Service Rules, CBN Act and the 1999 Constitution to show the insult and assault on society that Emefiele’s rumoured presidential aspiration constitutes.

In March, in an unexampled instance of public office impunity, Emefiele’s supporters swarmed the APC convention, openly campaigning that he be elected Nigeria’s next president. Earlier, photographs of hundreds of branded vehicles being prepared for the presidential contest flooded the social media, bearing Emefiele’s name. Multiple of millions of Naira-worth advertorials have also been sponsored in newspapers which were attributed to some nameless fronts. In all this, Emefiele has refused to distance himself from the campaigns.

On Saturday, Emefiele, basking in the time-worn Nigerian politicians’ belief that the rest of the people are dunderheads, put out a wonky and spineless rebuttal thus: “I have not come to that decision (italics mine). I note and salute the sacrifices of those farmers and patriots going as far as raising personal funds and offering me Presidential Nomination Forms: I thank them most profusely. However, Should I answer their calls (italics mine again) and decide to seek presidential nomination, I will use my own hard-earned savings from over 35 years of banking leadership (simulating the image of a public-spirited official) to buy my own Nomination Forms…” He then added a caveat that is unequivocally the language of those who think the rest of us are simpletons: “This is a serious decision that requires God’s Divine intervention: in the next few days, (my italics) the Almighty will so direct.”

The greatest enabler of the festering of Emefiele and the army of funny characters aspiring for the office of the Nigerian president is Buhari. He is either too timid to publicly stand on the path of normalcy or his Tortoise cunning, similar to Emefiele’s, has overwhelmed his sense of decency and probity. Emefiele and Buhari will definitely know that the end of Tortoise and his cunning is always fatal. Or, don’t they know?

By: Festus Adedayo

OneCandleAway:
And someone had the guts to tell her oni iro oshi?

It's terrible.
And yet we call some people children of hate. The fault we find in others is usually our inherent shortcomings.

RIP Chi, may your soul rest in peace.

Deji07abcd5:
Donald Trump is proof that a " Strong Man " Falls Very hard.
Anyone who thinks Vladimir Putin is a " Genius " or " Smart " has an extremely very small and Tiny knowledge base.
In War the Golden Rule is " Never Strike First " but allow your enemy to strike then obliterate him. By striking first Putin has made himself and Russia the Aggressor and the Entire World is Analysing Him. This is a Grave Mistake .
The Reason Why America got away with Nagasaki and Hiroshima is because the Japanese first did Pearl Harbor ( That's why they warn " Let Sleeping Dogs Lie ". Attacking Pearl Harbor was Madness , dropping the Bombs on 2 Japanese Cities was Madness. The Human Mind asks " Who started this Madness ?" . The Answer Japan. " Who Replied the Madness ? " The Answer America. We are wired to Pay Good with Good and Evil with Evil. They call it Karma some call it Retribution.
Some people may talk of Russia and Ukraine have had conflict in the past. The Past is a Forgotten, misleading, Misty, hazzy place where LIES AND HALF TRUTHS EXIST. That's why people focus on the Now, A Time they can judge for themselves.
Had Putin kept his troops on the Ukrainian Border for a Decade, he would have caused PSYCHOLOGICAL TORMENT for that period inside Ukraine. Perhaps Ukraine would have lost its nerves and attacked first and the War would have started.
Another Problem for Vladimir Putin is we have seen it all before thanks to Adolf Hitler.
We watch for who will be the next Adolf Hitler.
Had the World being complacent and Russia beating Ukraine up, the taste of Blood is very delicious to some individuals and habits die hard we may have seen a Putin Tour like the Hitler Tour across Europe.
Strong Men Are Extremely Dangerous they try to smash everything even the Capitol.

Objective write up.

There is a need to declare a state of emergency in Yorubaland. This money making ritual is an embarrassment to a so called sophisticated tribe.

JAMO84:
Crying more than the bereaved.


Every time, hausa will betray Yoruba, north will betray Yoruba, Fulani Caliphate will betray Yoruba.


Let them betray us, we like it like that.



WAILING LOSERS TAKING PARACETAMOL FOR OUR HEADACHE

@ the bolded wins the most foolish comment ever on nairaland. How can a human being justify being cheated repeatedly?

madridguy:
This is wickedness at the highest level. May God comfort the widow and send her helping hands.

The question we need to ask ourselves is what was her offence? It's not possible that such treatment could be meted out to her without a reason ( Not justifying the ejection) the OP failed to tell us why she was treated that way. It's not possible that she was a good person and nobody is willing to take her in in the entire family.

OBALOLA55:
RUSSIA IS NOW THE NEW MESSIAH OF IPOD TOUTS

It's terrible. Lack of knowledge of history is a problem. Most of them are ignorant illiterates who know next to nothing about the world and it's history. This same Russia bombed Igboland with her MIG fighter jets flown by Egyptian pilots.
Mumuism is a disease.

Onyiiobi7735:
Russia,oke mba,na enye West sleepless nights.Russia and China are the major reasons, US cannot manipulate the entire world to their whims and caprices.

The same Russia that supported Britain to bomb your people and destroy your towns like they are doing to Ukraine during the civil war. Was the US involved in that genocide? Study your history and stop going along with the crowd.

Take it or leave it, the Catholic church has encountered schism and upheavals, yet she remains strong. It's strength is a proof of the word of our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:25
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And guess, who is that Rock?

"The Catholic Church is the only stable entity in an unstable world"
Adolph Hitler

Oyedepo was right. Most of the these pentecostal churches would not survive the next 50years with the way they are organized.

Breadandpeppers:
Stop putting on your gen

Best advice so far.

seunmsg:
The image was a prank that was done by someone on social media now, it was not from her. Anybody with a phone can do picmix and post it online.

It’s so sad we lost such a brilliant and committed public administrator to evil power play over nothing. She served the country excellently but she was attacked, abused and insulted all through the period.

Those that made a career of attacking her daily then don’t even know who is the current finance minister. Anyway, she has done her part and moved on. History will be kind to her as the best finance minister we’ve had since 1999.

Proudpolygamist:
B

Trouble sleep yanga go wake am, wetin e dey find.... palaver e dey find.
Palaver you go get, palaver o O O O!

That lady you claim to be better than your wife will unleash the dragon on you soon when your promises begins to fail.

SadiqBabaSani:
I am sure a wise supporter of "I WILL FIGHT DIRTY" should really be looking into that alternative.

The power of an incumbent party to win elections cannot be over emphasized.

The Anti BAT conspiracy is really strong and well organized.

IMO, Tinubu has paid his dues, but I dont pity him for the political humiliation that is coming to him soon

You guys no dey tire for Tinubu matter?
Na wao!

Rubbish is it tenable? Just between two countries.

Drenimarcus:
WTF is wrong with Poland? Why are they escalating things? Do they know their country will be decimated before their so called big brother arrives?

They have suffered more than any country in Europe due to war. So this offers them some form of protection.