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I totally disagree with GPS and digital cameras.

Phone GPS is shi.t!

em3r4ld:
When smb like Ribery went home with a treble, helped France qualify for W/C but never got Balon D'or, while CR7, who struggled to qualify on play offs, without any major trophy, got an extension in voting and Balon D'or .


Balon D'or is a joke!!

In that case Messi should throw away all his Balon D'or trophies.

Come January, CR7 will add to the collections.

From frying pan to fire.

Nigeria's Igbo Jews: 'Lost tribe' of Israel? - CNN

A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria's federal capital territory.
Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there with his family. They walk alongside stray goats on a road covered in red dust and potholes, lined with open sewage. They are nearly 20 kilometers away from the modern multi-story office buildings and sprawling mansions in Nigeria's capital city of Abuja.
About 50 people gather in the synagogue. They pray from the Siddur, they read from the Torah and as they chant, Abor's mellow alto begins to rise.
In a country of 162 million people tensions often lead to violent uprisings between Christians and Muslims and being part of the religious minority can be an issue. But Abor wears his kippah and his identity with pride.
"I am a Jewish Igbo," he says.
The Igbo are one of Nigeria's largest ethnic groups with population estimates ranging from 20 to 50 million. Abor is convinced that the Igbo's ancestors were Jews.
"The son of Yaakov, Jacob, [was] Gad and I learned that he was among those people who went out of Israel to exile," Abor says. "So from there he had a son called Eri and a son gave birth to a son called Aguleri and that's how the Igbo race began."

From generation to generation, some Igbo have passed down various versions of a migration story framed around Jacob, a patriarch of Judaism. A popular version of the narrative holds that Gad, the seventh son of Jacob, had three sons who settled in present-day southeastern Nigeria, which is predominantly inhabited by the Igbo. Those sons, Eri, Arodi and Areli (as mentioned in the book of Genesis), are said to have fathered clans, established kingdoms and founded towns still in existence in southeastern Nigeria today, including Owerri, Umuleri, Arochukwu and Aguleri.

Eze A.E. Chukwuemeka Eri, the king of a community in Aguleri, claims he presides over the throne of Gad's son, Eri.
Wearing a white shirt with the Star of David stitched on the front, King Eri points to a calendar on the wall of his palace that lists the names of his 33 predecessors. He has no doubts that Eri is his ancestor. He has even acquired land to establish an educational center for the study of Jewish culture.
"Israelites and Igbos are brothers," he says with a broad smile.
King Eri, like many, claims that the Igbo are the Jews of West Africa. They believe they are descendants of at least one of Israel's lost tribes. In the eighth century B.C. the Assyrians invaded Israel's northern kingdom forcing 10 tribes into exile. Historians say it is not unlikely that these tribes migrated westward to Africa.
Throughout history, large populations of dispersed Jews also became "lost" through forced conversions and cultural assimilation.
"There is evidence that is scientific that the Igbos descended from the people that evolved in Israel," says Remy Ilona. He began investigating the stories from his youth more than a decade ago.
"When I grew up I heard, like virtually every Igbo here, that the Igbo people came from Israel," the Abuja-based lawyer says. His field work in Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Mali led him to conclude that Igbo and Jewish culture are not just similar, but "identical."
In his latest book, Ilona draws parallels between Igbo rituals and customs and those practiced by Jews. Shared traditional practices include circumcising male children eight days after birth, refraining from eating "unclean" or tabooed foods, mourning the dead for seven days, celebrating the New Moon and conducting wedding ceremonies under a canopy. Some historians have noted that the Igbo were practicing these customs before their exposure to the Bible and missionaries.
Daniel Lis, from the Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland, is one of the foremost researchers on Jewish identification among the Igbo. He says there has been a clear continuity of Jewish identity among the Igbo. "It's not just something that happened yesterday," he says.
The Swiss-Israeli anthropologist says that Igbo-Jewish identity can be traced back to the 18th century. Cross-cultural comparisons have been documented by people ranging from George Thomas Basden, the influential Anglican missionary and ethnographer who proposed that the word "Igbo" evolved as a corruption of the word "Hebrew," to Olaudah Equiano, a freed Igbo slave living in 18th century British society.

The oral stories and historic notations of cultural resemblances between the Igbo and the Jews have proven compelling enough to lure a diverse array of people to southeastern Nigeria.Michael Freund, an American Jew based in Israel, is planning his first trip to Nigeria to get a first-hand look at the culture of the Igbo.
"I've read about them but of course there is nothing like actually hearing the stories of the people themselves," he says.
Discovering "lost" Jewish communities around the world is what Freund does.
He is the founder and chairman of the independent non-profit organization Shavei Israel. According to its media spokesperson Arik Puder, Shavei Israel is the only organization in Israel that focuses on finding descendants of the legendary lost tribes.
He says the Israeli government does not recognize ethnic communities in various countries claiming to be descendants of lost tribes.
"They cannot prove that they have a Jewish grandfather or grandmother," Puder says. "But they do have an interesting story."
Freund says he has received numerous letters and emails from Nigerians trying to connect to Israel. But with a rising number of groups around the world attempting to link their ancestry to the ancient Israelites, he is aware that some of those claims are "wishful thinking." He hopes that the future will yield strong genetic evidence to help the search for the lost tribes.
"As DNA technology improves there will be a growing stock of scientific evidence which can perhaps buttress the claims of an Israeli ancestry," he says.
A 2012 documentary called "Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria" featured the country's Jewish community.
The film featured Rabbi Howard Gorin. He retired from the congressional rabbinate in 2012 after 32 years as the spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation in the U.S. state of Maryland. Gorin has played a significant role in the rise of Judaism in Nigeria since his first trip to the country in 2004.
"I embrace them and support them as brothers and sisters," he says. He ships books on Judaism to synagogues in Nigeria.
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More support comes from groups like Kulanu, a New York-based non-profit group. Kulanu assists emerging Jewish communities around the world, like the one in Nigeria. But most of the Igbo who practice Judaism were not born to a Jewish mother and have not converted according to halakhah, Jewish law, so many Orthodox Jews would not recognize them.
Even among Igbo people, the claim to be Jews elicits strong criticism. One critic, Catherine Acholonu, attributes Jewish identification among the Igbo as a result of Christianity brought by missionaries, since most Igbo people are Christians.
"Everybody is excited to say they belong to the people of the Bible because the Bible is reigning -- it's in," says Acholonu, a prominent researcher on Igbo history and culture.
In her award-winning book "They Lived Before Adam" Acholonu proposes that Igbo civilization is older than that of the Israelites.
She feels that Igbo people are whitewashing their history and diminishing the value of their own culture by attempting to link their heritage to the Jews.
Peter Agbai, who says he is a "proud Igbo man," strongly disagrees.
He started practicing Judaism in 1991 after leaving the Methodist church. He says that the more he followed the commandments in the Torah, the more he realized that he was doing what his parents had always done as followers of traditional Igbo culture and spirituality.
"I have seen that the traditions of our people are similar to those in the Bible," says the 66-year-old, making references to aspects like ritual bathing and polygamy.
Agbai is one of the founders of the Ghihon synagogue. He plays an important role as a spiritual leader in Abuja's community of Igbo Jews. He attended Abor's bar mitzvah last year, an experience that Abor says made him feel like a man, and feel closer to the Jewish culture.
He wants to go deeper into Orthodox Judaism and take a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
"I want to live in Israel," Abor says. He hopes that there, he will get a better understanding of his forefathers.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/world/africa/nigeria-jews-igbo/index.html

This guy is even verified on twitter.

EDDGgold:
I won't have bother to quote u but I quote because of your lying habit. Nobody has ever lost their monies in MMM. Liar.

And if anyone has lost their money to MMM, may all the curses they have made fall upon you and your generation. Amen

"Both gambling and lotteries are presented as games, and the risk of losing is well known in both. I would say an essential element of a Ponzi scheme is deception, as it is a loss presented as a guaranteed win. Ponzi schemes present themselves as safe investments with guaranteed returns, not as games of chance where both a win and a loss are possible. Thus, I think it would be unwise to refer to gambling or lotteries as a Ponzi scheme, when in fact it's the exact opposite."

copied

When any Ponzi scheme start to change goal post, know say wahala dey!

A word is enough for the wise.

sgtponzihater1:
I sincerely think ponziponzi is doing a great job. These Ponzi schemes owners are mostly heartless scammers. I remember very clearly how MMM said there'll be a December bonus of I think 40%, people rushed to put millions to benefit from the bounty. Then days later the system crashed. They maximised the gains then, and termed it freeze, other Ponzi sites call it maintainance, while other outrightly blame unseen enemies like Ponzi hater. Good bless you Ponzi Ponzi at least you are warning people before it happens, unlike another analyst who comes to paint sweet sounding words immediately the system crashes.

MMM will crash in weeks, and don't ever say u weren't warned.

Shun Ponzi Schemes.

Innovate

Sgt Ponzi Hater

Thank you, sgtponzihater1. What else can we do for humanity? The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The hottest part of hell is reserved for those guilders. How can men be this wicked, they all know that this thing is going down but they still don't care. All they can think about is the bonus they will get. How can someone make himself/herself as a tool to defraud their innocent countrymen?

ponziponzi:
Urgent Meeting Update
27/07/2017 Night

Programmers finished the formula

This formula will be implemented tomorrow morning

Admin has approved it

They gave us the chance to implement it in Nigeria

They gave us wat we want

U got my point?

It depends on us now

How would u work?

We have a free hand

U will be able to withdraw all your money

It will be from 1 week to 4 weeks

Now we want to change d situation forever

U will be able to GH any part of your mavro every week

The system will determine withdrawal limit every week

U will b able to withdraw every week

We want to make a sustainable system

We need to fight to make it work

U will see the good news in tomorrow morning

Together We Change The World...

Funny update and some silly people will still put their money o.

Shun Ponzi scheme!

If you don't know, just seek information.

Kingjames11:
. London 6hrs ahead of Nigeria #wake up

You do geography so?

Many Canadian universities exempt Nigerians from taking IELTS.

What with the smoke? What's has that got to do with 'My girl'?



Nevertheless, the song is not bad. Better than some of these so called 'hits'. Weldone!

henrygentle:
And what if it eventually happens? You believe in Critics. But i believe there will always be a way. They've made an update. Then Let's wait and see. I strongly believe we will end in Good News...

Just like i told ur fellow disciple...."JUST WATCH AND SEE"

Okay o

henrygentle:
SgPORNzihater Disciple....he don anoint all of una. Oya! Let the craze Begin!!

So you still believe you will get your money from GHWx?

Maga go always pay...

Greedy people everywhere....

slimany:
Nigeria looks like a failed state already. Sometimes you wonder why another Nigerian derives pleasure in seeing you miserable. When will things be easy and organised in this country? Is the country too big for a black man to manage? Maybe it should be split into six or ten parts for easy management. Things aren't working! We can't keep wishing!

Are we still talking about Ponzi scheme? Or just the usual lamentation.

conductor13:
Abi o. Compare made in Biafra and made in Naijelia

Who wears colour riot flag as shoe?

How persin wan take wear this one now? When persin no be masquerade.

This guy ferociously criticised Wizkid's Come closer lyrics and video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSkry_b-ItQ

rosalieene:
Yards, why are you crying more than the berieved.
For the very fact that you took your time to study about the WannaCry Virus and also follow ghwx updates even when you are not A participant shows how jobless you are!!!

Haba!! Bubu come and give this young man a job so that he can channel his time and energy into something productive.
*Spits*

So how market? Them don use una money pop Champagne.

Everybody open sursh, na offering things.

jaychubi:
Some good news for GHWX participants

If you believed that, you will believe anything.

Shi.t don hit fan hahaha hahaha hahaha