This is the few times I have read comments here and I was glad. This is one of the few topics that the SOUTHERNERS have spoken with one voice without bashing themselves... No Afonja this , Ipob that. No flat head or betrayal talks... Let' the south come together and speak against this people. If we don't stop this nonsense now, our future generation will have a bigger evil to face with several heads...
No tribe has the monopoly of violence....
I am so proud of my southern brothers and sisters...
Toeze: 4 children without a wife. Is this now the new normal? Nah. I'm a big fan of Ronaldo's skills on the pitch mind you, but this? This is not right. And I don't care who jumps on this to bash, I really don't, but IT IS NOT RIGHT
Then Kee yourself ontop the matter nah. Do you think he fathered those kids with different women?
factsobserver: For quite some time now, a lot of controversies and criticisms has evolved in the Nigerian church scape as regards false doctrines especially, the issue of tithe. There’s no doubt, doctrines that have no biblical origin and are feasibly unrealisable must be outrightly dispelled. It is in the light of this that some lingering questions surfaced on my mind and they all seem to put a question mark on the claim of Christians believing they’re one body in Christ.
Very quickly, let’s take a look at the factors that made me come to this weird conclusion. Pastor WF Kumuyi, Pastor DK Olukoya and the Jehovah’s witnesses believe Christmas is a pagan tradition, so it’s not celebrated in their Churches.
Whereas Pastor E.A Adeboye of the RCCG, Pastor David Oyedepo of living faith church, and millions of pastors around the world readily embrace and celebrate Christmas. Also, unlike other bibles, the Jehovah’s witness Bible has the word “God” replaced with “Jehovah” in its entirety. The Kumuyi’s deeper life bible church, on the other hand, believes King James version of the holy bible is the most unadulterated, hence it’s preferred to other bible versions.
Another funny thing is that unlike other churches, the Jehovah’s witnesses don’t close their eyes to pray. I was even told some don’t pray at all, yet they all claim to be Christians.
The issue of dressing has caused a lot of traffic on the media, both reasonable and unreasonable responses were given to support different ideologies. Deeper life members, especially ladies can easily be spotted out without stress, owing to her long pleated skirt, her thick well-wounded hair tie or turban, and her bogus top clothing.
But the same can’t be said of the ladies in pastor David Oyedepo’s Church. Ladies dress in tight trousers, some wear sleeveless tops and appear sexy even on Sundays. They believe true worship is in the heart and not the garment. Same goes for many other churches in Nigeria.
The Catholic and Anglican churches share certain doctrines in common, but the differences are also worth looking into. Catholics, unlike other churches, pray through Mary the mother of Jesus using the rosary.
Also, they believe the use of contraceptives such as CDs even after marriage is ungodly. They recommend the menstrual cycle method which is a nice but socially unrealisable idea. The neonatal baptismal practice is another concrete Catholic practice that differentiates them from other churches.
The message of spirituality and spiritual possession is not far from the reach of the garment wearing Christian churches. Unlike other Christian churches, white or multicoloured garment uniformed Christian churches employ the services of multicoloured candles, holy perfumes “turari”, holy water, staffs and all sorts of “holy” equipment.
Funnily enough, these set of Christians believe its sheer display of ignorance and disrespect to march into the sacred ground of worship with your shoes on, hence they walk barefooted to church.
However, these haven’t stopped people from referring to all these leaders as men of God. Does it mean God speaks with both sides of the mouth? Definitely not!
My candid advice to the pastors and religious leaders is that they should come together to discuss the doctrines, dispel unprofitable ones and uphold biblical and socially realisable ones. Until Christians have one doctrine and speak in one voice as the early churches did, I still don’t see any prospect of moving Christianity forward in Nigeria.
Firstly, on the issue of Christmas, it is not compulsory you celebrate it.. That does not stop the fact that Christ was born. The reason why Deeper life don't celebrate it is simply because they believe Jesus was not born in December which is true.
On the other hand , other churches celebrate it just as a mark of respect.. despite knowing that He wasn't born on December 25th..
It is not a disagreement as you tried to portray it.. It is rather a thing of choice to mark His birth or not to...One common factor that is undisputable is His Birth, celebration is optional because the date was truly set aside by pagans.
On the issue of KJV , It is the oldest of the recent translations from where most other translation came from. It does not demean the Bible and Jehovah replacing God with Jehovah is nothing ( I guess you are not a Christian ).. God's name is Jehovah and if I choose to call my God is name, is there any crime in it? Every Christian knows God is Jehovah...
Some of your points are damn ridiculous and childish but I will still answer... On the closing of eyes , it is not a doctrine in any denomination. It is simply a way to aid concentration. If you are in your privacy, you can choose to open you eyes once there are less distractions and you know you can be focused. Concentration is necessary in any spiritual circle even beyond Christianity..
On the dressing issues, there is always a standard we call moral... It is not a doctrine as well so stop getting it mixed. On a moral ground, every woman should dress decently either in church or outside the church.. The same goes to women in other religions too. I don't support the idea of skimpy dresses in church or outside the church but yet it is still on the standard of morality.. Morality is not limited to Christianity.
On the Catholic and Anglican issues, I honestly have little to say about that because I do not have the basics of those denominations. Hopefully someone else will
Please kindly respond to this , then we can move forward..Let me know you have read it even if you disagree...
Lest I forget, I will be outlining the fundamental differences between the Sunni and Shiite...
I will take it down to the Sunni and how Muslims also have different doctrines from Ahmaddiyah to Nasfat , to Toheeb etc...
We have light almost 24 hours a day in Tinumola Osogbo.... Except for technical fault.
Generally, Osogbo and its surrounding towns enjoy light but Tinumola area and Kelebe enjoy specially. These areas can go five days without any interruption and if it does, be rest assured that it will be restored within few minutes except issues develop..
Iswap/Boko Haram and the jihad Taqiya played by the north has been restricted to the north because of Christianity
There is peace because of christianity, if not nothing stops iswap, bandits and fulanis from rounding the entire south and forcing all to become a Sharia state
They are restricted because if they raise their head in Christian south then this nation might divide for them to go practice Sharia in north.
Christianity of the south is what is keeping the Christian's in the north safe, it is what is keeping all athiest safe and it is what is keeping Muslims safe from their own bloodthirsty selves.
It is the only thing saving them from the full plans hisbah would have placed on all
Bro I wonder how some stupid folks place Christianity and Islam side by side.... The true religion of peace is Christianity...
Islam... One of the biggest problems of the world.
Christians ain’t any better though
The world would have been 100x far better without all of these religious crapss
You are still breathing and not forcefully practicing Islam simply because of Christianity. And guess what , Christianity still gives you freedom to do whatever you want with your life.
After careful observation, the world would have been a farther better place with Christianity, not saying the best because of internal rancour based of tenets. But Islam would have sucked more blood if they had been the ONLY faith
Mangekyo: The USA were really dumb for leaving hastily. The best option wouldve been to withdraw but slowly. They had great Britain and other NATO countries with them in that country. The brits were ready to stay, but decided to pull out when the boss (USA) made it known that they were leaving.
USA failed to read the situation. They thought the afgan army would be able to stand up to the talibans. Otherwise, I'm sure they would've like I said earlier, withdrew slower, while taking the deadly weapons with them.
As it is now, they left every single thing there. With just a few that they deactivated in the airport
The USA just made these terrorists more stronger than they even were 20years ago. They now have world class usa equipments, experience, money, and possible allies in Iran, China etc.
Afghanistan have oil and other natural resources. If they strike a deal with China, you're gonna start seeing a copy of those weapons the US left behind with even upgrades.
And no, the talibans don't have any war head. If they had, they USA would finished them off na. It would be too dangerous to overlook a terrorist organization like Taliban owning warheads
U get sense.. I am sure you are not one of these underage boys on nairaland..
Please try to get my point... USA bleeped up big time with this untimely evacuation that left several deadly equipments in the hand of the terrorists.
The United clearly stated that they disarm SOME take note of that ... There were some regions that were taken over before any disarmament could take place .. So as expected, they have had access to some weapons.
Thirdly, these weapons can only be used on their soil against their own people. You definitely know that those weapons can never in anyway pose a threat to any far nation other than to fight against any intruder.... Again, one they run out of war heads , there is no way to replace it atleast for now.
Those weapons are obviously on the wrong hand and the people I pity the most are the citizens who are perceived as anti Taliban or pro West..
People don't understand... We are talking about high grade equipments not truck and tanks... These tanks too cant still be used for war because they don't have access to the type of war head that can be fitted. It's just a show and does not mean they have activated anything. Why ain't they flying the helicopters or drones? Though the united state evacuation is not ripe and it is a sign of weaknesses on tbr side of Biden and leaving behind some weapons is obviously a plus for the Talibans, it does no in anyway translate them to super powers... Those tanks can only be used in Afghanistan.
Modrov: Even if the refinreis are made to.work, they have to work profitably
Subsidies won't let them work profitably. Because Nigerians won't want to pay the price the refineries set. And they will accuse them of lying about their costa.
If refineries don't work profitably. They go down the drain. That's how we lost out 4 government refinereis.
Now come to this, what are subsidizing If not the differential in prices...? If refineries are working at the optimum level, we don't have anything to subsidize and luckily for us , we are blessed with fine deposit of crude in large quantities. The shipping and landing cost is the problem of subsidy and it is absurd.... If this government wants to be sincere, fix the refineries, there won't be anything like subsidy anymore...
Modrov: Even then, the temptation and incentive is still there.
I mean someone buys 10 liters of fuel at N1630 and sell it at Niger at 3770.
Capitalism has always been about the money. Make it difficult to earn money, they will do it illicitly
That's why the government should mitigate against the fuel exportation by implementing the policies that can check it and discourage people against increasing the price.
There is no reason why our refineries should not be working atleast 2-3. If Dangote could build a refinery, why can a nation as Nigeria repair a refinery if not a deadly strategy?
We have fundamental problems In this country beyond what you are seeing..
Modrov: The problem has been there for decades before this goverment.
And the closure of the borders was governments very inept way of solving the problem. Which amounted to throwing the baby with the bathwater as it hurt legit business more
*It has been proposed that no fuel station 50 kilometers away from the borders...
* Only NNPC station is allowed within the range since the population around the border is less dense.
* Border patrol / Custom sabotage should be checked
It will not totally stop it but drastically will reduce it. You need to see the numbers of ⛽ stations along the road to the borders...it will shock you
xandy84: Guess you think military equipment is same with cars? Military equipment has specialized parts and you can only order such parts from the manufacturer only. Those equipment will never be useful again except US sell them the parts and provide expert to installed it which will never happen.
I don't know how Nigerians reason bro... These are military equipments that work base on codes... The parts they see are useless... The codes and operating system are gone... They think it is okada that anyone can fix
Don't join that queue dear... Assemble just like that? Weapons ain't like okada... These are highly classified machines. They require codes not like you will replace a part.... It's software enable and its not easy to come by ..
What you people don't get is that these weapons are even for sale.. Not like they are secret... Almost all European nations have purchased these machines or another but the codes are forever hidden....
BKayy: Medicine after death. Question is, how many Chinese engineers would it take to get them back in shape? Few I guess. How much will it cost? A few million dollars How much does the Taliban have in excess? Billions of Dollars How much does the Taliban generate from opium sales in Weeks? Hundreds of million dollars Have China partnered with the new Taliban? Yes, immediately after USA surrender. Infact the first country to do so. So you see, the USA just made a mockery of themselves
Jesus! You think weapons are like cars? You think Chinese can just bring back an humvee back to life like an okada? You people should get knowledge nah
Where are the idiots that claimed that USA intentionally left behind those weapons? Many Nigerians don't know anything about weaponry yet they keep commenting...
I stated clearly that every weapon of high destructive capacity can even be remotely destroyed by the nation that produced it.. One idiot even said the world will not know peace again since those terrorists now have humvees and tanks as if they will march from Afghanistan to another country....
Now that it is over and those weapons will never work again, Nigerians need to really get informed. Information is key. You don't just stay behind your keypads and type nonsense that can cause misinformation among the people of your intellect capabilities... If you don't know, then pass and allow those with information to help you.
ayo84: let me reiterate the story it is most definite that the occult world being talked about is people who dwell in higher ufo realms who are alien hybrids who are inter-dimensional, the person in the village may be taken advantaged of by a spiritual dopplebangger or clone who exists in a upper realm or ufo using her identity and her intelligence through a neuro link or life tissue link, have you noticed when your ears and head is pulsating like transmitting a signal, it is receiving some signals and transmitting to someone else tapping into your intelligence
Most people who dwell in higher realms or ufos rely on leeching the intelligence from the brain of intelligent humans
Read this :
Most of the people who have access to old wealth stored for the privileged awaiting their awareness at the time of reincarnation. Most of their wealth is being stolen by a few people mostly who were their workers and stewards in past life's and have formed cult or secret societies to steal this wealth, they exist in churches and mosques. A proof of true reincarnate heirs is their powerful ambiance and intelligence, people like ours , and the goal of this thieves is to cheat us and circulate the wealth amongst themselves with no commensurate return on investment, they keep stealing and recirculating these resources amongst themselves, we must identify these people. In various parts of the world they have connived to virtually exhaust all the resources. Money that has been kept safe in trusts, investments, assets, fiats are being secretly stolen by these people, and they pass it on to their children, some of the wealthy people you see today are just generational thieves who have been circulating these wealth for generations. We are gathering evidence and they would not only forfeit these resources, they will pay with their life's,souls and existence and cease to exist and would not even reincarnate. We who are true reoccurrences of great men of the past who had great wealth would recover every single dime back. Even if it means a war would ravage this entire creation spanning planets galaxies and realms. Most of the thieves are black people who stole from their black masters, why do you think people are in a haste to name their children after great men of old so as to leech on to their ambiance. Most of these thieves are unintelligent, unproductive, idiotic and no output and yet they live in opulence, in wealth , a lot of them are women who have used the opportunity they had to sleep with this great men of old who were privy to secrets where they kept and stored their money . these women are generational thief's who are in a cult like ordination to continue this trend for generations to generations. Why do you think women are so eager to get acquainted with smart people and attempt to play mind games so as not to draw to close and become a suspect for communication fraud to defraud we special ones. We must identify these culprits and decimate, interrogate , decapitate and recover all the funds they have so deceitfully stored and created a pantheon of a female wealth resource. These women and men exist all around us, when you see unintelligent but also sexually deviant and full of wickedness and sodomity and travesty. They have also connived with entities of up realms, demons, aliens who pilot these UFOs and connive with them to steal the wealth of resourceful intelligent people world wide. They exist around us and I implore other people to whistle blow and expose these people. There is a curse on these thiefs and they know it . What makes it annoying is when they make a reattempt to still manipulate one and access their intellectual property rights to gain more access to wealth and more resources and privileges. We must permanently ban jumping and make it a criminal offence unless there is a monetary accountable system to monitor who is jumping to where and when and a commensurate tax system. We great men of old know ourselves and we would soon regroup.
I wish they can actually understand what you are saying. But unfortunately religions have taken away the common sense.. I know a lot about the UFOs and their influence.
dyfaze: Nigeria players sha. Dis one go pass 23yrs anyways, Congrats to him.
Nigeria mentality bad gan... w no dey make person read clearly...
The guy wasn't born here. He was born in England where they have records. There is no way he could have cheated with age. Please try to dey reason beyond Nigeria scope, e get why.
RuddyFusion: Kante sit tight....What are you smoking son?
Lovely banter... The same Kante that sat out against Arsenal and Liverpool..... It's all about the Coach kiddo.... The truth is when Saul comes in everyone in the midfield pack must sit tight.... including my favorite which is Kante...
A good player has just been added to an already effective squad. Saul is a good attacking midfielder with eyes on goals. He is still under 30 and agile and I think he will bring dynamics to the team.
Chelsea has got a good deal in Saul Niguez and I think all the players will sit tight hence you will be benched... The likes of Jorginho, Kante , Kovacic by now should sit tight because an already tested players with years of experience has just been. added.
Offpointng: The problem is not having a document the real issues is, can the documents be photocopied? does photostat work on it? how authentic can the document stand before the next governor?? and if it can, how long then can we now expect an engine oil to keep a Boris floating??
Like are you really blind to the reality on ground or just chasing clouts? Do you even need evidence to see the obvious? You need to see people who have survived the attack of the Fulani foot soldiers and here them speak. I think you live in the comfort of the South and you have NEVER SEEN or known anyone that has been hacked to death brutally by these people.
Like you feel it is a conspiracy theory? Please stop this joke and wake up before the reality dawn on us all.
livingchrist: Do you express yourself as one person or you are one person? God is a trinity of persons not just express himself as three persons. You seem to confuse person with being, there are three persons in God or one God in three persons, it means God exist as three separate individuals or there are three individual consciousness(persons) in God.
A person means a self conscious being or an individual. A being on the other hand is what something is or what make a person who he is. For example a tree is a living being but not a person, you see the difference between person and being? While a human has just a single person in him God is higher than man he has three persons in him, that is where three persons in one God came from. In this case a person is not the same as a being but as the ability to have self consciousness.
God is a trinue being or a trinity meaning God has three centre of consciousness(individuals) whereas other beings just has one center of consciousness (an individual).
Oga stop confusing yourself. You are only buttressing what the unbelievers are saying...
The sun worshippers coined the word TRINITY and it means three gods forming one head but in Christianity,, the concept of God is God in three persons....
From One God came three personalities or expressions for the sake of the work being done while trinity means three different gods coming together to form one and accept to be equal....