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SPTruth:
Not every church gathering is a "true church". A true church can be likened to the new Jerusalem. There are some churches that are epitomes of babylon, even the little salvation that you are managing they will snatch it from you and replace it with greed, worldliness and lust. A Bible-believing Church is one that places the Word of God above every other thing(history, tradition, trend etc). The best I have seen so far in Nigeria are RCN, Koinonia, Fortress Ministry, Lord of Hosts Harvests, Fire Nation . The ones I will rate second best are MFM, Deeper Life, Redeem, Living Faith(I rated them second best because I can't vouch for all their doctrines 100%). However, there are many other Bible-believing churches, many are small and not popular. A Bible-believing Church can really help you grow in your Faith, prayers and Word-Life. If you are in need of one, take it to God in prayers to direct you to one. God bless you.

What about PEACE HOUSE? What category do you placed them?

Quintopia:
Very interesting findings.

I'm pleasantly surprised that Peter Obi is gaining widespread national support.

This proves that Igbos are not marginalised. They just suck at producing credible candidates.

Not a bad candidate but he needs to intensify consultation/ build bridges across the nation

Not bad although, the polls looks one sided but in oder of my interest

pharmagba:
I have one issue with Peter Obi
He is not forming alliances. This is the most crucial thing at this stage.

His first hurdle is to be on the ballot. He needs the PDP delegate not granting interviews for now.
He need to spend, go build pack with people who believes in him and his ideology, people that will bankroll and back him up in the other regions. Delegate from the south east are the least moreover at the moment there are 4 contenders to share.
He needs strong alliances. Even Wike understand this, we may not like him but he understands the rudiments. Like Osinbajo making senator Kabiru Gaya is campaign coordinator is an alliance across religious and ethnic boundaries.
Obi has to understand this
Li

You are on pont bro

If I die don't cry for me

Maxymilliano:
So INEC Chairman can make sense like this

Most Nigerians knows what's right but will to implement/enforce is our undoings

Please share the link to change my location online.
Thanks

MASTAkiLLAh:
Lol

Please attache link

Not a bad option but preferably P. Obi

Mayng01:
It’s about to go down for this yeye pastor as well. Forget sentiments, women have the ability to pull a man down from grace to grass, even to the mud underneath the grass. This single act may cost this this man his career Pastorally. If I lie, ask will Smith who was even blindly fighting for his own , not to talk the one beating his own. Osinachi’s hubby is currently cooling in a square like confinement, due to this kind of act that took a life. Hungry pastors every where.

What career are talking about??

Na wah oo,

Nigerians no go kill me

GardenOfGod:
I will support Senegal and Portugal.

Senegal

A brother studying mechatronics in one of our public university is seeking advice were to start from in pursing career in programming.
Please note I'm novice on this that's why I could not advice him appropriately. So, tolerate my mixup.
Python, Java, Matlab, Coding,etc. which of this should be his starting point secondly physical training person/center in Lagos preferably Ikeja area
Please help forward this to the front

Please help us out fam.
In regards to my previous post, due to ASSU strike a brother studying mechatronics in one of our public university is seeking advice were to start from in pursing career in programming.
Please note I'm novice on this that's why I could not advice him appropriately. So, tolerate my mixup.
Python, Java, Matlab, Coding,etc. which of this should be his starting point secondly physical training person/center in Lagos preferably Ikeja area
Please help forward this to the front

Please help us out fam.
In regards to my previous post, due to ASSU strike a brother studying mechatronics in one of our public university is seeking advice were to start from in pursing career in programming.
Please note I'm novice on this that's why I could not advice him appropriately. So, tolerate my mixup.
Python, Java, Matlab, Coding,etc. which of this should be his starting point secondly physical training person/center in Lagos preferably Ikeja area
Please help forward this to the front

Please help us out fam.
In regards to my previous post, due to ASSU strike a brother studying mechatronics in one of our public university is seeking advice were to start from in pursing career in programming.
Please note I'm novice on this that's why I could not advice him appropriately. So, tolerate my mixup.
Python, Java, Matlab, Coding,etc. which of this should be his starting point secondly physical training person/center in Lagos preferably Ikeja area
Please help forward this to the front

bluefilm:
Again, like I said earlier, it is the times we live in.

In the 90s and early 2000s, people could afford to re-take WAEC and JAMB several times before they enter the university.

These days, people (both parents and their wards) will rather cheat their way through because they don't want to wait that long. Of course, they have their excuse: No one has that enough money to be dashing WAEC and JAMB as a regular customer anymore.

It is the times we live in.

Do this exam bodies just failed them ?

At what rate per second? No foooool us oo

Below their brothers achievement along Kaduna-Abuja rail line.
May they fine truth before is too late

SympleSam:
Already apart. Moral values in Nigeria is dead.

No be lie

bluefilm:
I don't really blame the parents.

It's the times we live in.

Parents just happen to have so much commitments these days.

But quiets numbers of them don't want their children to experience stress associated with learning. When students failed now guidance/parents frown at the tutors and sometimes even forced the school promotes them. Academically, parents plays a great roll in academy degradation

bluefilm:
Children of nowadays are mentally lazy.

Dasal

Do you blame them? Parents have messed up big time.

Please, for new timer in programming, where do I start from?
Currently studying mechatronics in a public university

2023 is around the corner

2015 when the APC first came into office. For that, let us have a quick glance at a few “bread and butter” issues. A bag of rice (50kg) was N10k in 2015, it is now N30k+. Petrol was N87/Ltr in 2015, it is now N165/Ltr and rising. Diesel was N151/Ltr in 2015, it is now N650/Ltr. Cooking Gas (12.5kg) was N2,800 in 2015, it is now N8,500. Inflation was 9.3% in 2015, it is now 15.7%. Foreign Debt was $10bn in 2015, it is now $38bn. Domestic Debt was N12tn in 2015, it is now N22.4tn.
What else will be left polluted

biloiroman:
Hope all the critical infrastructure in this Country will not collapse before 2023.

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Why election changes nothing in Nigeria
Tayo Oke
29 March 2022
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It is generally believed in Western democracies that elections have consequences, and in many instances they do. Take, for instance, the election of Boris Johnson, the Conservative British Prime Minister, in 2019, under the slogan, Get Brexit Done. Following a huge parliamentary majority, Brexit indeed happened and it has resulted in a remarkable turnaround in the ordinary lives of the UK citizens and their relationship with the rest of Europe in particular. New trade deals are still being negotiated between the UK and many countries around the world, a new UK passport has come into being and Britain is, once again, trying to re-assert itself as an influential power within the Western alliance. All tied to the election. Another example is the election of the current president, Joe Biden, in the US, whose Democratic Party’s own catchy slogan was Build Back Better coupled with a new direction in both domestic and foreign policy. An economic stimulus package worth $1.9 trillion has since been pushed through Congress and new multilateral diplomacy to deal with international crises has taken the centre stage in contrast with the isolationist and unpredictable atmosphere of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. Similar scenarios can be identified in Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Australia etc. All pointing to the consequential nature of elections. By contrast, elections change nothing in Nigeria, though not for the reasons you think.

The cynic in the average Nigerian often leads him to write off elections as nothing but a charade. “It is all manipulation,” “Votes don’t count,” “Winner is known even before the vote,” “Too much ballot stuffing,” etc. These heartrending lines, and more, have become the received wisdom for many Nigerians disillusioned about the possibility of politics as a tool for advancing change. But, none of the above is the real reason why elections don’t have consequences in Nigeria. The received wisdom in Western democratic systems is that the opposition does not win elections; the government loses it. In other words, a government’s record in office, not the opposition’s manifesto, is the decisive factor. It is what motivates the electorate to cast their ballot. There is a connection; a symbiotic relationship between government record and electoral mandate. The social security system has seen to it that hunger and empty belly can no longer be used to bait the electorate. So, there is a substantial focus on governance and nation-building during elections than it is in less affluent, less developed economies such as Nigeria. Be that as it may, it is still not the whole story.

The present APC regime campaigned under the mantra, Change, in 2015, which people interpreted to mean a change from bad to good governance. Although the substance of ‘change’ was not spelt out by the party, the electorate could not have imagined that it meant anything other than the promise of a marked improvement in their standard of living. So, when the electorate was called upon to render a verdict four years later, in 2019, it was widely thought that four years were not enough to judge a regime given that the previous one was in power for sixteen consecutive years. Another opportunity to render a verdict now beckons next year, in 2023. This time, there is no question that the electorate is entitled to ask whether they are better off in 2023 than they were in 2015 when the APC first came into office. For that, let us have a quick glance at a few “bread and butter” issues. A bag of rice (50kg) was N10k in 2015, it is now N30k+. Petrol was N87/Ltr in 2015, it is now N165/Ltr and rising. Diesel was N151/Ltr in 2015, it is now N650/Ltr. Cooking Gas (12.5kg) was N2,800 in 2015, it is now N8,500. Inflation was 9.3% in 2015, it is now 15.7%. Foreign Debt was $10bn in 2015, it is now $38bn. Domestic Debt was N12tn in 2015, it is now N22.4tn.

Shokoloko:
The typical African parent is a bully. Children are beaten and tortured for no reason.
Children are beaten up for not understanding her schoolwork, Children are beaten up for getting sexually molested, Children are beaten up for crying from the previous beaten, Children are beaten up for not answering quickly enough, Children are beaten up for daring to have a different point of view.

In your example, how can a man and wife (two people) hit, tackle to the ground and beat the crap out of a 15 year old. Like 2 people to one person? Even if she was an adult and not their daughter, two people to one is an unfair situation.

What Nigerians and Africans refuse to learn is that violence destroys a country. See how all the violent countries are experiencing reduced GDP compared to those that are not. Africans will continue to create and breed monsters.

It will be very easy for a 15 year boy to rape and beat up a 6 year old child because he has been beaten to the point of trauma he feels its not a big deal, his mother's has beaten the house help to stupor, and his father has beaten his mother to stupor so violence is a part of life.

Trash, trash, trash brother. Compare the rate of rape between western world and Africa, despite their stenched law they still rate high. Inhuman is inhuman whether among whits or people of colour.

Nigeria is finished. Don't really know what remains

Oshodipikin:
When I read the comments of some children who knows
nothing about life not to talk of war here on nairaland, I laff
in
swahili...
NATO IS AVOIDING WAR WITH RUSSIA FOR YOUR SAKE.

NATO's decision to not close the sky over Ukraine is correct.
A shooting war between Russia and NATO should be
avoided
as much as possible and the way the US has been evading
that confrontation is simply the right thing to do.If you think
it
is cowardice, it is because you don't know and this post will
brief you.
Let me set it out in a very brief way. There are three types of
wars:
1. Conventional war - which is fought according to the rules
of war: Don't kill civilians and children, don't hit civilian
infrastructure, don't shoot surrendering enemy soldiers and
PoWs, etc.
2. Total war - which Russia seems to be fighting in Ukraine
right now and which it fought against Chechnya in Grozny. In
a total war, you just kill everybody you see and destroy
everything on your way.
3. Nuclear war.
On a normal day, Russia will fall quickly to NATO if NATO
engages it in a conventional or a total war and Putin has
admitted that much in a speech recently. There is no contest
in that. NATO's firepower is extensive and its generals are
top
level.
However, the mismatch will force Russia to quickly resort to
'final-solution' tactics while it can - it will launch its arsenal
of
nuclear weapons. Lets be quickly reminded that since the
1970s, both the West and Russia have thousands of nuclear
tipped missiles already programmed to hit targets in all
major
cities on each other's soil. With just the press of a button,
those missiles will fly out and head for their targets.
But there are difficulties. Both sides have watchmen that are
not sleeping. Every inch of Russian territory is under a 24/7
scan for missile launch by the West, using flare and heat
detection satellites. Russia has the same system.
The moment a rocket motor ignites (most missiles are
powered by rocket motors. Cruise missiles use air-breathing
jet engines - pretty much the same used by aeroplanes, but
they could be ramjets or jets with afterburners. Cruise
missiles are usually called precision guided weapons), they
know in the West. These missile scouts will start to track
the
missile or missiles and note their number, velocity and
heading. They have about 10 minutes to confirm and
reconfirm that missiles are being launched against the West.
In this case they will mostly be ICBMs (Intercontinental
Ballistic Missiles). Well, despite the heavy name, they are
actually simple orbital rockets that can get into orbit and
then
re-enter the earth at the appropriate location - above their
targets. At this point, they will release their thermonuclear
warheads or bombs (all modern nuclear bombs carry
thermonuclear warheads, that is, warheads that uses a small
hydrogen bomb to initiate a chain reaction in its main fission
bomb of Plutonium or Uranium). These warheads are shaped
like cones and they are about 1.2m in height with a base
diameter of about 800mm.
The real active ingredient, Uranium or Plutonium inside the
conical device is not bigger than a football but they are
packed with the horrendous power of creation itself, the
power of the nucleus of an atom called the Strong Force.
Two things will then happen in line with strictly established
procedures it call it Battle Order.
Once a missile attack is detected, the US will immediately
move it's president, his family, Pentagon chiefs and a few
citizens into a bunker that is about 2 kilometers below the
ground and under a mountain. It is suspended upon springs
so it can withstand tectonic forces from a nuclear blast on
the surface. The bunker contains provisions for two years to
sustain the occupants. (I have seen the image somewhere
about 25 years ago in maybe Times Magazine). Reporters
taken there were blindfolded and flown for hours so they will
not have a clear sense of direction. The location is totally
secret but it is suspected that it is Nevada. It was not dug
out
directly but a lateral tunnel was created several miles away
to
this subterranean site.
1. The West will launch countermeasures at these warheads.
(Usually, they will be 13 to 17 on each ICBM and at this
stage, they are in their terminal altitude in space). This is the
threat level the American THAAD anti-missile system is
designed to contain. It will fly into space and try to steer kill
vehicles into those warheads and of course, the success
rate
will understandably only be partial. Some will end up
successfully re-entering the earth and dive (under zero
power) for their targets. At this point, the Patriot system will
come into action and try to swat the warheads. The Patriot
complex deals with missiles within the atmosphere.
2. Simultaneously NATO will give orders for its own missile
launches and within minutes, you will see missiles rise from
silos and from submarines heading East to attack preset
targets. B-52s ('Stratofortress'), B1, ('Spirit') and B2 ('Bones')
-
all long range bombers will take off from the US, Germany
and probably Japan armed with hydrogen and Plutonium
bombs and head for Russia. There are also about 1,500
nuclear weapons on each side that are currently in the field,
mingled with conventional weapons but known to
commanders. Those are probably the most dangerous of all
these arsenal of nuclear weapons because they are already
and permanently dispersed in the field. All - everything will
be
launched within just about 30 minutes in this make or break
final combat.
Everything described above from the moment one side
launches its nuclear weapons will not take more than 45 to
60
minutes and it is all over. If the attack takes place at night,
right here in Nigeria, if you look northwest towards Europe or
east northwest towards the United States, or northeast
towards Russia, you will actually see a dull glow in your
night
sky though you won't hear the thunder of the explosions.
The next three days or even a week will be normal although
wind patterns may have become suspect. Thereafter, you
will
observe that the sky is getting darker and midday seems like
dusk. That is the cloud of a global thermonuclear warfare.
The sun will be screened out for months and plants will die
off. This will lead to global famine, first step. Of course,
global
trade is already gone and the world has reverted to primitive
levels. The Internet is no more and telephone services have
become epileptic.
Next will come the global outbreak of all forms of cancers
from radiation carried around the world by the cloud earlier
described. Death will become so much more desirable than
life that those alive will curse their lot.
There will be survivors of course: those who have been
hidden away in military grade silos and have ample supplies
to carry them for about two years.
Those who just manage to go through about three years of
life as foragers and scavengers and somehow have not been
killed by skin cancer, blood cancer and other forms of
metastasis. They are the ones that will populate the new
world and begin to try to establish a new civilization.
Now you have an idea why NATO keeps avoiding fighting
with
Russia. It is simply to keep YOU alive.

This highly informative. Thanks

Bros from Edo

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