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heavenly gold

GEOLOGY OF HEAVEN
A learned colleague objected to my topic, arguing that “since geology is the study of the earth, why would someone be studying the earth of heaven?” so I want to begin this piece with an apology to the reader, for the contrasting nature of our topic. It is for want of a better vehicle to convey the meaning of our discussion, besides I have of terms like “geology of Nigeria” so I don’t think my offense is all that unforgivable.
It is amazing what discoveries geologist have made by studying the earth. The vast resources in our natural environment as revealed by geologic inquisition, has helped mankind in so many ways. But man has an infinitesimal fraction of eternity to spend on earth, before he must depart to the great beyond- man’s eternal home. It becomes necessary to have a geologic picture of heaven, so that we do not get so overwhelmed with momentary beauty of the earth and so trade heaven for it- such costly venture that will only bring an unfathomably great loss to the trader. Hence we briefly discuss the climate, fluvial system, oceanography and mineralogy of heaven.

CLIMATE OF HEAVEN
The major element of climate is temperature as provided by the sun. Other elements of climate attain relevance from the degree of sunlight they receive. The seasons are classified into summer, spring, winter and autumn on basis of the varying sun intensity all year round. The latitudinal division of the earth into temperate, polar and equatorial climate is also on this basis.
In heaven there is no sun (Rev21:23); this should give us some repose, as billions is being spent to fight ozone layer depletion globally, but for the ozone, we would have all been roasted by the sun. Another important fact that the absence of the sun present is that there would be no weathering. Weathering is defined as the mechanical breakdown and the chemical disintegration of rocks; but where there is no sun, the water cycle is tempered with as there would be no evaporation and consequently no precipitation. This should come as a relief, as it is not just the rock that weather, but humans weather too, and that is why they age. A land devoid of decadence should be a land most craved and sorted after…..heaven is that land.

FLUVIAL SYSTEM OF HEAVEN
The occurrence of rivers on the earth is dependent on several factors. First there has to be precipitation, which will result in run-off and as this water find its way to relatively low land area (the upland forming the catchment areas, they create channels that are linked for ease of flow, the major channels form the stream/river while the smaller channel form the tributaries. Owing to the processes that lead to the formation of the river, the rivers on earth are never pure, because as the water run-off on the surface, it carries sediment, which are the end product of weathering in various forms, such as suspension, solution and saltation.
The rivers in heaven are pure rivers that are as crystals in their clarity. (Rev22:1-3). This is expected because there are no weathering and thus no dissolved materials in the water. The only nutrient carried by this river is “Life” and the plant that grow around the river are called “tree of life” they bear twelve fruit that are for the healing of the nations…….no wonder they don’t die in heaven

OCEANOGRAPHY OF HEAVEN
In heave there are no seas (Rev21:1). This may not come as good news to our brothers that are making their millions from off-shore oil exploration. The oceans occupy over 70% of the earth’s total surface area, yet gives less than 10% benefit to mankind…..such waste. The water that fill the ocean are not good for consumption, besides it separate us one from another, but from the rifting of the continental plates, Africa and south America would have been one big land mass, enjoying the same level of civilization. There will be no form of discrimination in heaven amongst the inhabitance , no third world nation, no racial barrier….. All men are equal.



Mineralogy of heaven
Mineral resources are naturally occurring substance of economic value. Usually, the harder it is to come by a given mineral, the higher its economic value. Well the rarest of all precious metals on earth are nothing near precious in heaven. The very lithosphere of heaven is made of gold. Gold so high in quality that no karat value can qualify it. Gold so pure, it is as clear as glass (Rev21:18).
The building stone for the engineering construction work in heaven are the very rarest gemstone on earth. The walls are made of jasper, the foundation stone are jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrystolyte, beryl, topaz, chrysoprasus, jacinth, and amethyst (Rev21:19-20). The gates are made of pearls……such and unimaginable beauty.

Finally, as I attempt to bring this discussion to a close; we have had relation that are relatively wealthy and have built for themselves edifice as residential structures, but have put a wall about it, with scary breeds of dogs and heavily armed security personnel and protocols that make us feel plainly unwelcomed to their home. This is not the case with the POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, He has sent an invitation to every one of us, to come and dwell eternally in this heavenly city, that is pass imagining in beauty, please I enjoin you to take HIS invitation. Do not cling to the passing beauty of the world at your own peril……….GOD bless you.

Somewhere in proverbs, it is written that gifts make leaders blinds.....was this the norm prior to when he became the president?

You see that's the problem with this guy, always appealing to sentiment.......so if re-electing dickson is not in the interest of the people of Bayelsa, they should vote him, at their own peril to stop you and your wife from being ridiculed.....tell is what he has done to merit a second term, and spare us the self sympathy.

Big question sha? If to say that babe been dey naked when Adam seem her, e for no chop ooooo.
The lesson though, is that the devil covers the penalty for offences, so as to increase the number of victims........just because others got away with their lawlessness, doesnt mean the consequences have been abolished....be warned, to him who knows what to do and doeth it not, to him it's a sin.

If only the achievements on ground would equal that on paper......yours would be the villa for another four years.....since this is not so, we can only wish you farewell as you take the exit.
Direct our noble course, guide our leaders right........Oh GOD of creation!
Thanks Gej.
GOD SPEED GBM.

THE EMPOWERED NIGERIAN YOUTH
“Bestowed with enablement” if that adequately define our topic of discussion, and I want to believe it does. Yet, it would be fair to the reader if we remind ourselves that “power is the ability to do work. It therefore follows that being empowered implies that one is charged to capacity to achieve a given purpose or goal. Hoping our premises are in place, we can boldly say, that empowerment, could be both advantageous and destructive, subject to two conditions. First, the empowered individual, and secondly the extent to which he is empowered.
The weapon, with which the military of nation is equipped for the safety of her territory and citizens, could be used to wreck chaos by the militant in the same nation. Same tool, directly opposite results. The difference is thus in the contrast of individuals and the conflict of interest. I read a quote with which am in consonance, it states “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” Before giving any man the ability to do something, you want to ascertain his individuality, which is embedded in his thought and revealed in his words. They say “ give a man power and discover who he truly is” well I beg to differ on that, because at the time of discovery, the damage done may have reach “irreversible” so I say “don’t give a man power till you can verge for who he is” You don’t want to regret your benevolence.
“Power corrupt, absolute power corrupt absolutely” Many innocent individuals have been transformed into monsters in the name of empowerment. A wise man once gave an illustration of how gradual an individual must ascend to power, be it financial, political spiritual or social. We should have respect for little beginning. He concluded from his illustration that “one must be judge fit for certain magnitude of power, before it is entrusted to them” We have a clear example today of the president of Nigeria, who finding an easy way to the most powerful sit of the nation, has only a truck load of regret, to show for it at the time of descent. The extent of empowerment, should be proportional to the level of experience the individual has gain, and not a function of cultural, ethnical, geopolitical, tribal or what have you background. And the yardstick for further ascent should be the results of excellence he has to show for the previous opportunity given to him. At least promotion form one grade to another in an academic setting is strictly by merit and so it should hold for all works of life.
As I attempt to conclude, empowering the in Nigeria should take a new shape, with the wind of change that is blowing. I recently saw a headline, requesting amnesty for Bokoharam members. I immediately picture Shekau, as the spoke person for the Federal Government. That picture almost cooked my brain. Please let government programmes aimed at empowering the youth challenge them to excellence and not to inspire them onto violence. It should urge them onto professionalism and productivity. There should be stiff penalty for restiveness, and enough with the patting on the back for people who have afflicted the nation and have now rose to enviable financial status, with which they now influence others unto emulating their evil paths.
We can empower the youth academically, by reaching out to the many Nigerian student struggling financially to stay in school, financially, by equipping them to provide goods and services, which will both profit them and the nation’s economy. We can also empower them politically by creating political offices that are exclusively for the youths and most especially by disabusing their minds of religious, cultural, geo-political, ethnical, and other ideology that is polarising the nation and causing unrest. In so doing, we will be truly empowering the Nigerian youth.

Now, I am waiting for a post that will list out the labour of the present government, whose fruit the in-coming government will be harvesting. And until then, dont let me hear you call Jonathan a hero.


"Guide our leaders right, help our youth the truth to know.........oh, GOD of creation"

cupid1:
I couldn't bear the suspense any longer so I downloaded the full book in pdf format. thanks for bringing this book to my notice. it makes for interesting reading

Please send me a copy I don't seem to find the book on google.....thanks...my email is kellylasisi@yahoo.com.

Awesome, if this is fictional, then there is no telling of man's imaginative power,......please, OP leave out the suspense and bring us to your ultimate point.

Seen

I think the striking comment in this interview is that which called on opposers to go join opposition party, get to their constituencys convince the people there to vote against him and then head for the polls and do exactly that,
Please everyone one of you should stop crying and analysing the interview, there's been and extention of grace time, so enough of the talking, get your PVCs and do with it what pleases your heart.
There is only one prophecy I have for the elections, "the violence of words will out March that of any physical weapon" quote me later. As for me any party other than pdp, would do, and any person other than Jonathan would do. GOD bless federal republic of nigeria.....GOD bless you.

I think the problem with Nigerians is our unwillingness to take responsibility, we are quick to look for external cause of our problem. If a lady cannot marry, it is a spiritual problem, if a man is unsuccessful it's home problem, should a student be performing poorly in school, there is something wrong with his foundation.
And you wonder why a nation so afflicted politically, economically, religiously even socially, could be said to have the happiest people on earth. We are ready to believe any vogue promise, that place no demand of responsibility on us. Sit at home fast for three days, and you will get a miracle job, take this anointing oil, and anoint yourself and your dream spouse will come to you, pay so much...(irrespective of how you came about it)....and you will enter into your season of financial abundance.
We like to be deceived and it does not matter if what you say come true, just reassure us and we will play the fool, over and again. Thus every key player in our nation who understood this fact, need only to play along, regardless of what office they occupy, religious or political. this therefore is the most product virtue anyone who desire to prosper should posses, " the grace to deceive"
Promise what you cannot make good, in the name of something or someone, whose existence you is only in the world of faith, or simply in times name, tomorrow, in year and very soon you have a bank account that is suffering from obesity, for fattness.
#Tipsonhowtosurviveinnigeriafinancialmarket

Shouldn't the Nigeria police dutifully stop then, like they did the chibok girls protesters.....#SMH

Ngozi's idea of proper handling of the economy is that which advice us to prepare for the worst in 2015,.....#smh.... she should just as well as come out to recount the good work of the present administration and tell us how miserable prof is. Because the prof. Seem to be more convincing with all his statistical figure, and doesn't seem to have taken side with any of the political party, but to think the minister of finance will reduce accusation of inadequate handling of the economy to a rain of insult, carefully present a counter attack statistically.......you can see how unrepentant this national treasury loothers are.

Well; the burnt bus is just a drop in the ocean of 21.8b I must confess. So it's hardly anything of consequence.

PENDULUM BY DELE MOMODU, Email: dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com

Fellow Nigerians, barely one month and some days to the start of our 2015 general elections, things are already falling apart. There was never a doubt in my mind that politicians would naturally heat up the polity to a boiling point before God rescues us as always from some wondrously amazing people. The two leading parties of PDP and APC would do our country a great favour if they can eschew violence and stick to the basic tenets of Democracy. Their foot-soldiers in particular must be warned specifically about the inherent danger associated with deliberately causing mayhem aimlessly in one’s own country.  Most times, it is the poor who would be used as political canon-fodder while the children of the rich would be far away from the theatre of war.

The one man I expected to rise above the petty squabbles of electioneering campaigns is the President and Commander-in-Chief.  Indeed, at the inauguration of his Presidential Campaign Team on Tuesday President Jonathan urged his campaign team and Party faithful to be decorous in their language, focusing on issue and not personalities.  However, barely two days later he was doing the exact opposite of what he had preached.  It is unfortunate that the President chose to go back on his words as he joined the fray two days later as he practically exploded in public during the flagging off of his re-election bid as President. The tone and tempo of his speech was stylishly vituperative. It could easily have been described as spitting fire and shooting from the hips. He appeared to me like a man who was under intensive pressure and didn’t really know how to off-load the heavy burden on his chest.
I should have suspected that something unpleasant was about to happen after I read the news that the Presidency had responded in kind to the myriad of attacks and salvos fired at Dr Goodluck Jonathan by former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, who has since become a loose cannon in the PDP. The former President has arguably become a one man riot squad against the second coming of President, was savagely and mercilessly described as a "motor park tout."
For me, this was the climax of a long-drawn battle between father and his godson. We've witnessed such bitter altercations and mutual insults in the past but this recent one took the cake. It is sad that this are the canapés we are being served before the main dishes of sloganeering begin. The global community must be wondering what manner of country ours is where elders throw decorum to the wind in the presence of infants and toddlers. What examples are we setting for the youths we all claim to love so much when we can't tolerate ourselves in the political arena?
All eyes are on Nigeria and in particular the President who is at present the father of the nation. This position is the highest in the land and it was apparently freely handed to him by the good people of Nigeria in 2011. Even before then, the same people had shown him immense love at a time he was being harassed by the proverbial cabal. At that time, no one complained that we hated the North just because we rallied round a man from the Niger Delta. Most of those claiming ownership of Mr President today were nowhere to be seen then. It is strange how success instantly catapults a man into a different level and planet. All manner of claimants would suddenly surface from nowhere and chase everyone away. It is the tragedy of power in our clime where the man on the throne has to go through this terrible, and self-immolating, process of deification. This is why most leaders often fail in office because they are usually far removed from reality.

This trait became very obvious as I watched the President deliver his speech in Lagos days ago at the start of his 2015 Presidential campaign. His party leaders were not in short supply. Everyone came to pay homage to the man with the power to turn water into wine over 2,000 years after such a miracle was performed in Galilee. One speaker after the other eulogised the President in superlatives. They raved about his transformation agenda which in their dream or reality must have transfigured Nigeria into a Paradise on earth. Listening to those incredible guys one would have thought they were describing some far-flung places and a true reincarnation of Lee Kuan Yew or a Chairman Mao leading the industrial revolution in Nigeria.
The President himself did not waste this moment, he was visibly pleased with the adulations which in reality were not meant by many of the speakers who had mastered the art and science of lying to anyone in government. I had waited patiently for the President's speech. I was certain he was going to take a very subtle and conciliatory approach but I was very wrong. The moment he took the microphone till he finished, the President was on the offensive. It was certainly not a charm offensive but one laced with pent up frustration and anger. He came on like a Heavyweight boxer chasing the World Heavyweight title. The President did not pretend about his intention which was to jab at his challenger using mostly unlawful blows and pummel him to a corner for a possible knockout.
President Jonathan sounded angry and agitated. He made generous use of the literary style of rhetorical questions. He threw many of such posers to his jubilant crowd who must have wondered at the physical transformation of their candidate. If the President was known to be gentle and somehow taciturn in the past, he was the exact opposite on Thursday, January 8, 2015. He was clearly in an upbeat mood and it reflected in his grandstanding.

Let's now go to the meat of his speech and try to examine the merits of the self-glorification, whether vain or otherwise. The summary can be put simply thus: Mr President blames his predecessors for all the woes that have bedeviled Nigeria. I wonder if he forgot that as at the last count, his political party has been in power for 16 years and he has been the only Nigerian permanently in power since our return to democratic rule in 1999 as Deputy Governor, Acting Governor, Governor, Vice President, Acting President and President. 16 years is a very long time in the life of a nation. Nigeria must have spent more money in those 16 years than all the different Republics and regimes put together but sadly without commensurate results. Moreover, he also appears to have selectively forgotten that most of the predecessors that he is lambasting like Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, are card carrying members of his Party, the PDP, and thus their failings are the failings of his Party and by extension himself.
The President spoke repeatedly about the youths and referred to himself and others as being too old and half-dead. If so why is he contesting when there are many brilliant young people in his party? But it was a subliminal message to discredit General Muhammadu Buhari as being too old to rule this generation. "I do not want to address old people like me because we are spent already."
Unfortunately, it seems the President is not in tune with the current mood of the nation and his supporters are not likely to give him the true picture. Many of us don't care if the man coming is going to rule from a wheelchair. We all run to the elders of the house in the days of tribulations. I wish to assure Mr President that unlike in the past when the PDP propaganda was able to truncate Buhari's mission of rescuing Nigeria from the doldrums the story has changed miraculously today. The youths have chosen to follow his crusade even if his enemies decide to change his age to over 80. They believe the younger leaders have not done any better than the gerontocrats we all love to deride as causing our failure. Therefore playing the kite of old age won't fly this time around.
The President boasted that he has been able to conduct credible elections. I daresay that is not his doing but the action of the People of Nigeria who have resolved to protect their votes.  Besides, he forgot to add that after wasting billions of naira on data capture machines they were abandoned. The Nigeria Governor’s Forum held an election of 35 people which saw a winner emerge with 19 to 16 votes yet our President recognised a loser choosing 16 above 19. He said he believes in the rule of law yet the law is being desecrated and there are too many sacred cows in PDP. I dare our security agencies to storm any PDP Secretariat and carry away their computers and staff the way they have been doing to APC. It is pitiable that a supposedly impartial State security and intelligence outfit will give one reason for carrying out such a dastardly unconstitutional act but then recant and give another wholly diametrically opposed justification for such a raid.

The President is proud that Nigeria has the biggest economy in Africa but people are asking how that has affected the lives of the people. The Agricultural revolution being trumpeted is good no doubt, but it is not yet Uhuru. The question is where is the food? What are the Prices? Where is the income that should flow from such agricultural miracle. 
The President claims that he has done a lot for the security situation in the country.  However, it seems that the President is fantasising about another country. At no time in Nigeria’s history has insecurity reached the level that it is now.  There are regular killings, bombings, kidnappings, abductions, raping not to mention the unresolved saga of the Chibok Girls. A country whose military has received endless praise on many peace-keeping missions overseas cannot deploy the same military to effective use in finding almost 200 girls who remain missing.  That is an indictment on the President which no whitewash can hide. The simple truth is that our people feel unsafe, even those few who have turned our much maligned police force and soldiers into personal ‘maiguards’!
The President claims that one of his achievements in the petroleum sector is that Nigerians no longer queue for petrol.  Although that is incorrect because there are still regular intervals when there is petrol scarcity the truth is that Nigeria as an oil producing nation has never had it so bad.  The price of petrol and petroleum products are the highest they have ever been.  Even when the world crude oil prices have fallen by more than 100% and the Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealla admits that there is no longer any subsidy on petrol, the price has remained the same.  Her justification, which I referred to previously, is too puerile to repeat because it is an insult on the intelligence of Nigerians.

As Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola said in his own reaction to the President’s speech:
“I spent about an hour this afternoon listening to the President in my State and, for almost the same period, I saw a very angry President. I saw a President who was recriminating about people recriminating about people criticising his job performance and was blaming all those who ruled before him forgetting that he had been on this job for six years. 
And he kept saying that, ‘They say we don’t have a plan.’ But for 25 minutes, he did not reveal a plan on power; he did not reveal a plan on security; he did not reveal a plan on corruption.

Now after six years, without being able to articulate what he is doing and what he will do, and he keeps blaming everybody, forgetting that he is the Commander-in-Chief, if the kitchen is too hot, as it is becoming of late, you must get out of the kitchen.”
I’m almost certain the President will receive more knocks from other stakeholders for this newly acquired belligerent disposition. My advice as usual is very simple. A man should never change what has worked wonders for him all his life. The President’s gentle mien had always been his secret weapon. A man who did not lift a finger to become President need not wage a war to retain it. Elections are never won by abusing potential voters but usually through the use of persuasion. Those who are misleading the President are not helping him. All they’ve succeeded in doing is to alienate the electorate and paint him as someone who is very desperate for power.
I advise the President to maintain his calm dignity instead of fighting real and imaginary enemies on all fronts. There is nothing more he wants from God. He has been very lucky but there is no need to overstretch that luck. If perchance he is defeated on FEBUHARI 14 (as some people have described the election date), the President should accept his fate graciously and return home triumphantly. Anything else may wipe out all that he has effortlessly achieved.
Mr President, there is life outside government.

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Am lost.....what did they say the terminal disease was again?

If animals were our problem then the degree of a zoologist would have sell in a time like this. But where bombs and guns threatens the very life of the common man..........a military degree is the qualification of consequence. #GMB

Seriously, are plp being paid to make case in favour of their choice candidates or it's just over zealousness. Because am awestruck by the ease with which we turn a blind eye to the obvious. #SMH

#an#open#mind

For me my curiosity is incurable, if this guy. Repeatedly loosing since 1999, (14 years minus his present age), will not succumb to a fate of defeat, I am dying to see what he is got to offer. In fact I am of the opinion we owe him the seat in aso rock and let's pay the debt come February 14th..........in lover on lovers day.

will FUPRE write post ume? if yes can someone tell me when please i want to know