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Greatzeus:
Op you tried on your post,but you are wrong on the part where you said the slave masters gave us Jewish religion.
First the slave masters and the christian missionaries are two different people that can to Nigeria in two different times.
The slave masters or colonial masters came to Africa for its people and its wealth.
The christian missionaries came for the soul of Africa.They didnt come for our money or slave trade,rather they left their family and comfort to Africa to spread their faith,which they did by first introducing western education,building schools and teaching women certain home mgt skills.
Thirdly, slave masters were all white folks, but missionaries were both whites and freed blacks,who have gotten certain level of education overseas and decide to bring education to the people,guided by religious principles.
Slave masters become rich through their business,while missionaries died of sicknesses and diseases especially malaria.
The missionaries drew the people together to themselves by showing love and care, but slave masters never had rapport with locals except the high ranking chief who help them with their illicit trade,just for a pair of mirror.
After slave trade was abolished,the slave masters left,but the missionaries were coming to Africa to bring the light of the gospel to the people.
What I'm getting at is, the slave masters are not the christian missionaries.This is what I did in part in school(history of education in Nig/West Africa).
Yes the missionaries are white folks too, but you should know some people stood and fought against slave trade in America,white people not blacks,before it was abolished by the father of democracy himself, Abraham Lincoln.
Slave traders are cruel and ruthless, missionaries were good caring loving people who gave their lives to spread the knowledge of God.

I beg to completely disagree.
In fact, I have say, with all due respect to you, that is absolutely rubbish to separate the slave traders, the missionaries and the colonialists.

The onslaught against the continent was simply a three-pronged attack.
To weaken, enslave, exploit, and mentally yoke forever were the objectives and results,..all perpetuated by the same people, serving the same economic purposes for the empires of Europe.

Pls desist from insulting our already damaged psyches with that kind crap.

TrajansKong:
Me too.

In fact, I'm coming to a realisation that our people are afflicted with an extraordinary case of mental and moral COWARDICE.

Rather than look directly at reality and engage with it, we will take refuge in the warm gloom of the magic book the white man gave us. That has all the answers we could ever need. Plus all the love we will never give each other, or ourselves...

We cherish our terror of everything from the dark to dogs to water to mountains to woods to owls to our grandmothers to cats to strangers to free enquiry and every aspect of the natural world.

Curiosity beyond gossip is dead and we have turned our face away from the world forever, I fear.

Elegantly put.
But a very sad reminder.

Why don't Africans ever wonder why the Jews , the so called people of the Bible, never feed their kids with the type of poison we feed our children's minds ?

johnydon22:
I do not believe anything is wrong with Black Africans - There only are need for us to evolve into thinking differently

What is that catastrophic event that will jolt us into thinking differently?

Even in the diaspora, Nigerians and Ghanaians are mushrooming churches in business plazas and industrial areas, doing church programs every single day of the week, day and night.

What gives?

Is this all our brains are hardwired for ?

Same thing I ponder day in, day out.

In fact, I am obsessed with this question.

I had a casual friend of mine throw a big tantrum last Sunday when I revealed to him( after much prodding from him) that I wasn't a subscriber and consumer of Middle East stone Age bullshytes.

If was unbelievable how angry he got that I didn't subscribe to his stone age fairy tales.

He was even more livid when I raised the issue of scientific rationalism as the key to understanding reality.

With his smart phone in his hand, he said " fxxx science". , and didn't even realize the irony of that moment.

It's only a black African that can behave that way about his slave religion.

Again, here we have a beneficiary of ASO Rock largesse, telling us that Recession is just a word.

This dovetails with my statement yesterday that when you have a N2b feeding budget, there is nothing like Recession.
It'ss just a WORD that hungry people make up to describe their current stomach infrastructure.

Is this government out of touch with reality, or what ?

Considering that our third tier of government, made of less than a thousand people, consume almost 25% of our budget , then Nigerians should be up in arms anytime we hear of borrowing.

No matter how much we borrow, the system that we are running is simply unsustainable.
Many states cannot pay salaries, talkless of pensions.

Yet, less than 1,000 people take home N30m each every month.
What type up madness is this ?

Nigeria needs to be restructured for effective governance.
Until then, we are simply playing a game of musical chairs.

Bolustic:
There is no wrong in borrowing so far it will not be Dasukified.

He goes a borrowing who goes a sorrowing.

sekundosekundo:
I can't imagine myself standing under the Sun or rain to cast my vote for an ancestor who have not invested in any meaningful thing since he was born.

Exactly.

A man with NO record of achievements in any endeavor is now leading a dynamic nation of 180 million people in this 21st century?

How did this happen?

Well , it serves us right.

kenny987:
Please people should not use this word 'integrity' lightly. That is how they claimed buhari was a man of integrity. How? Such a lying, corrupt, ignorant n daft specimen has absolutely no room for that word and its attributes!

Bingo.

Of all the irrational defences of Buhari, the one that nauseates me the most is the bogus claim of integrity.
This is where he actually scores big ZERO.

Hilarious

Yes, of course, the President and the presidency know a lot more about economic matters than those lazy and HUNGRY experts pontificating on empty stomachs.

Why not?

When you have a N2b feeding budget, How can the ECONOMY EVER LOOK BAD to you?

Adminisher:
Jonathan eventually will be picked up like JIGGER and dropped in Kuje Prisons very soon. The man is a common thief worse than the pick-pockets they put neck tires on and set ablaze

The election was over a year and half ago.

Get over it.

blackpanda:
Lol. What how wailers will avoid this thread like a plague

Lol.

Because Wailers, as they are tagged, are allergic to zombie food.

The zombies diet and feeding schedules are very predictable.

The 'Nation' paper is the zombie propaganda chef, serving hastily packaged doses of hot gases to stomach-hungry zombies every fortnight.

Zombie life is pathetic.

sonofluc1fer:
1.Rapture/End time:

In Matthew 24, Jesus tells his disciples about the signs of the end time. In verse 24, he says
' Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.'

It's been 2000 years and counting . Either he got hit by an asteroid on his way back, or He's running on African time - which would be weird for a Jew.

2. Miracles:
In Luke 10:19, Jesus says ' given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you'. I have snakes and scorpions. Any Christian who is willing to test this verse should Pm me.

3. Speaking in tongues:
Let's be honest. Speaking in tongues is a sign of mental illness. 'Rababaorobo' isn't a sign of the Holy Spirit - only an adult completely brainwashed would think speaking unintelligible words like a baby somehow holds some deep spiritual meaning. Totally embarrassing.

4. Holy Communion:
The Holy Communion or Spiritual cannibalism is a tradition rooted in John 6
...said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you"
This sounds like some kind of weird fetish. Eat my flesh and blood to have life in you? Yuck.

5. Tithe:
Sometimes, I wish I had this kind of power. A person hustles through years of education and finally lands a job, only to pay 10% of his salary free of charge to some guy who never contributed a Kobo to their education. May God have mercy on you poor souls.

Don't forget that the first transatlantic slave ship was IRONICALLY named "The Good Ship Jesus".

This slave ship Jesus is still today, carrying millions of African (mental) slaves to distant places of no return.

If this story is true, then it's Just like I predicted.
I can bet anything that the so-called UAE businessman or men are fronts or partners with our Nigerian political elites.

Since Independence, this is how most of our billionaires are created.

Joel3:
if only the Yoruba can dare the unity and accept to pull out. then everything is settled. Niger Delta and Biafra will gladly raise the restructuring or pulled out.


although it will not be long. the APC agreement was that buhari north will do a single team. then Yoruba a single team etc. were the problem is going to arises from is when buhari attempt to run for second team or refuses sharing the power to west.

tinubu has document where buhari signed and agree for a single team before they gave him the APC primary election.


so Niger Delta and Biafra's should all chill for 2019.

it can be delayed or postponed but can never be changed.

only restructuring can save this nation from inevitable collapsed.

So you want Biafra and Niger Deltans to wait and depend on Tinubu, a political opportunist who would trade just about anything for political porridge ?

You're just kidding, Right ?

rusher14:
Please state your experience with Skye Bank.

Same as the other poster.
It took me 2 months of cajoling and shouting to get my few thousand USD from my Dom account.
No dollars, they kept on saying.

rusher14:

I still insist you are lying.

Name the bank that claimed not to have dollars to give you from your Dorm account.

Watch how members of this forum from such bank would debunk that statement.

Skye Bank, for example.

soberkid:
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO HIS MAJESTY, AS A TRUE SON OF YORUBALAND I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS IN ANYWAY AND I SEE IT AS DISRESPECT TO THE THRONE. THE OONI IS A "TRADITIONAL" RULER NOT A "RELIGIOUS" RULER

I really can't understand this perversion of African tradition for middle East trash religion.

I weep.

Laughing out loud.

This paid e-warrior is lost in a time-loop.

He still thinks the presidential campaign is still on.

Tkayhandsome:
If your husband curses you, your pastor can cancel it.
If your pastor curses you, his General Overseer can cancel it.
But if your general overseer curses you, only God can cancel it.

Adeboye, reading from the Fraud cult manual, trying to deify himself.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Mrdecent:
Some churches make it a rule that you must be on suit while ministering. My question is why not in our native attire? Is there any sin in promoting our own in the house of God? Please let the pastors in the house give us insight

Originally: Why Is It That Our Pastors Are Always On Suit While Preaching

Because they are in show business.
That's what it is all about.

MKSON:
Its not every open door that's from God. It's not as if the job is bad in itself but you become who you are not after a while. I believe that God would give him another while trusting Him. Don't take something that would kill you. It's a rather difficult step of faith he'd have to take but its worth it

My 2cents

I sense an epidemic of stuuuupidity in this land.

igwegeorgiano:
Good morning everyone. i dont really know if here is the righr place to post this? Mods pls move it to the right section just in case this post misses its way to the wrong section.

A friend of mine called me yesterday to break the good news that he got a miracle job early this month with Nigeria Brewries Limited as a maintenance engineer. you will agree with me that NBL is one of the few coy in Nigeria today that has fantastic renumuration packages for it workforce.

just last sunday, after the church service my friend, with all the excitement in him decided to informed his pastor about the recent ugrade that has just started in his life. when he told his pastor about the job he just got with the Nigerian Brewries, the pastor's countenance changed immediately. he told my friend that he should immediately resign from the job on the excuse that such job opportunity does not glorified God and that it will lead him to hell fire. My friends has dependants who are looking up to him for support. his wife and four kids are there to take care of. At the moment he is at a cross road contemplating on weather to quit the job cos of the pastor's biblical assertions or hold on to the job for his family sake.

Counsellors in the house, please what do you advise he should do in this situaton. thanks.

Omg!!
Wonders shall never cease to happen in this land of Moronica.

If your friend has a fxxing brain, he had better give the middle finger to the idiot pastor, and take that job.

Why do adult human beings surrender their minds to fraudsters in the name of religion ?

HAH:
It baffles me too that this very good idea that will reduce some pressure on the Naira has not yet been implemented, I still believe the deal has been made but is being delayed by some bureaucratic bottleneck within the Nigerian civil service as usual..

The greatest bottleneck and hiccup in business in Nigeria is the civil service and their corruption most likely someone has been paid by geedy beneficiaries of dollar scarcity to delay the deal.

Another reason may be the slow nature of Buhari, though his intentions are very good to be frank he is very slow, the word hit the ground running is strange to Buhari, imagine how long it took him to appoint his cabinet and just imagine till today no replacement for James ocholi that died several months ago thereby short changing Kogi people.

Another reason may be from the Chinese it self, they may given it a second though and are frustrating it deliberately among reason they may do that is they realize they need dollars in their economy.

Another reason may be the Almighty USA may have threatened Nigeria not to go ahead with it, because going on with the deal means making the US dollars less attractive in Nigeria and the moment that succeeds in the Nigeria other african nations can follow suit, thereby making the dollar irrelevant, also there is a cold war between the west and the east(ie china and russia) so there may be an economy war being by the superpower and Nigeria is the battle ground.

Sharap dia.

Blame everyone but Buhari.

" Buhari The Blameless" should be his new epithet.

How can you say that Buhari means well for the country when the ASO Rock Villa and key apparatus of governance are filled with his nephews, nieces and cousins?
That, by itself, should tell everyone out there that NOTHING GOOD will come out of this government.

LastSurvivor:
.... how do you expect someone who has never ventured in any enterprise all his life to make a reasonable deal. Banana can never produce apple..

Bingo!

This is the most glaring point that Buhari promoters like Dele Momudu, Wole Soyinka, Obasanjo , etc deliberately sidestepped in hoisting this Dinosaur, this vestige of a long bygone era, on Nigerians.

Buhari was never vetted in the same manner that an employer vets a typist, talkless a President.

Sibrah:
The man is speaking rotten grammar.
Is Buhari suppose to initiate Agricultural based Nigeria Got Tallent?
The main goal of this govt is to reverse the corruption trend in the system and it is acheiving that goal well enough. Diversification itself requires funding and we are all aware that the present govt met huge debt and recurrent bill that's backed and sustained constitutionally. If with excess money we couldn't diversify how on earth will it be possible with a debt ladden system? People should know that govts doesn't create jobs but creates enabling environment for job creators.

The FARCE is Strong with this one.

Congratulations for winning today's Bullshyte award.

Aufbauh:
This man is pathetically shameless and empty. In a civilized clime he should be going through retribution and penance.

If the above stated achievements of GEJ by Reno Omokri is the only bragging rights of the Jonathan administration in the era of oil boom then the past military government should be applauded.

Oh shut up dia.

Oil boom this , oil boom that.
That song is too stale now.

So, Buhari is not expected to, and cannot achieve anything without an oil boom?
Which Oil boom did OBJ have to tackle the broken economy and broken system that he inherited ?

Buhari and his blind supporters are the pathetically shameless for making daily excuses for his Gross leadership and management incompetence.

Give these guys a trillion dollars today, and watch them blame ghosts and goblins for their failures.

sukkot:
bros plaetton, I salute you my oga at the top. bros my crime was trolling

sukkot:
bros, i salute. i jus return from one month ban

Lol.

What crimes did you commit?

vodutive:
Tinubu is a crook, I don't know what that has to do with anything but so is Diezani, they are all crooks APC, PDP are 2 sides of the same coin. This govt is clueless but so was the last...how does taking sides in the battle between incompetent crooks that help educate your children or fix your roads?

At last, common sense is sighted.

First of all, I owe no allegiance to any political party.
I was actually an admirer of the original ACN when they were in opposition.
Like, majority of Nigerians, I was hopeful and optimistic after the last elections, despite my deeper misgivings about the leader of the new government.

Now, don't pretend that you don't know why we tag some people zombies.
It's not about being an APC supporter or even a Buhari supporter, but it's about blind support and irrational defence of every wrong move that Buhari and this government does.
That, to most us , is a serious problem.
We have also noted, an you will agree, that the government, its agents and its propaganda machinery tend to periodically tililate the sheeple with a steady diet of INNUENDOS, half truths, and outright lies, all in defense of their own incompetence.

It is these periodic menus of lies, half truths and INNUENDOS that we all, including you, must stand up against, and ridicule at any time it props up.

That is what I did here,.for which you have been irrationally criticizing me.

So, which side are you on?
Holding the government in power accountable or slouching back and feeding on their gaseous propaganda?

CriticMaestro:
at this age u should know a sarcastic comment when u see one

I thought as much.

My sincere apology.

vodutive:
so basically all you came to talk about was politics as demonstrated by your APC bashing and tribalism by your continous reference to Zombies.

First of all , I don't know how tribalism came up in this issue.
Zombies come in all shades, colors and tribes.

Are you trying to play the tribalism card on me here?
This shows that you jumped into this thread with preconceived prejudices.
How then can we have a sensible, objective debate or discussion?

The issues of APC and Zombies are relevant on this thread for many good reasons.
First, the Nation News are well known, undeniable, unabashed propaganda apparatus of the APC.
Therefore, any news item laden with INNUENDOS and no FACTS are automatically suspicious, and requires sterner critical analysis.

Secondly, the Nation News, as a propaganda apparatus of the ruling political party, have a target audience, a low IQ demographic group, to whom they serve the periodic doses political and financial fairy tales.

Observing from the outside, we see a consistent pattern of a Symbiotic relationship, a feedback loop, between the APC propaganda machinery and their target sheeple, or plebeians, whom we fondly refer to as zombies, due to their very predictable behavior patterns.

To prove the predictability of this relationship and the feedback loop, I will predict that the next headline news in a few weeks or less will feature the following words; 'Stella Odua ', 'Embezzled', 'Billion Naira', 'Unnamed EFCC ', etc etc.

Now, let me show you it works, the psychology of this relationship.

You see, hunger bad o.
There is hunger and frustration in the land.
When that happens, there is no one to blame but the government in power.

Our situation is made worse because the government in power came to power on pure lies and false promises.
Confronted with the reality of governance, they are stymied, confused and petrified at the enormous RESPONSIBILITIES of governance and statecraft.

But clever( ?) they are.
During the run up to the last elections, they showed their sophistication and prowess in social engineering and perception management by succeeding in painting a good man bad ,and a bad man good.
"We good, them bad" was and continues to be their psychological CUE in this ongoing social engineering program.

You see, when these people , this particular demographic plebeians experience prolonged pangs of hunger and frustration, the propaganda machines automatically kick in with big headlines like " Deziani Billion $ this, GEJ trillion Naira that, PDP 16yrs waste, oil price $100, Oil price low, etc etc.

When this happens, a curious ,but psychologically valid process is triggered.
You see, the stomach infrastructure resets, albeit temporarily, from empty to full.
The only difference though, is that rather being filled with nourishing food, the stomach is filled with hot gases that form the words ' Deziani, Stella Odua, Jonathan, PDP, billion $, trillion Naira, stolen, wasted, etc etc.

We have observed this to be a repeating and refueling cycle.
Till when?
We can't say.