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Islam for Muslims / Re: Islamic Rulings On Dealing With The Ex-wife by Positivist: 12:26pm On Nov 11, 2023 |
KennethEnyi:That's your religion that has no guidelines on how to deal with matters such as this. 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: A Town In Kano State Founded By An Igbo Man by Positivist: 1:06pm On Jan 19, 2023 |
MayorofLagos:Can you give a breakdown of how the word was formed to become Kwankwaso? |
Computer Market / Re: All Laptops Motherboard Available In Lagos Nigeria by Positivist: 12:28am On Jan 05, 2023 |
Please, do you have Hp probook 11 g1 motherboard? If yes, how much is it? |
Islam for Muslims / Re: Hijrah 1444AH: Ruling On Offering Congratulations At The Beginning Of The Year by Positivist: 1:16pm On Jul 29, 2022 |
Ojuntana:What is being talked about here is in relation to the New Year. Not the two Eids. I hope that this gives some clarity. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: ENDSARS: Turkish Authorities Deny Nigerians Permission For Protest by Positivist: 2:08pm On Oct 17, 2020 |
jlinkd78:Philippines was once a Muslim dominated country but now a Christian majority country. Talk of modern day wars and colonialism used to violently spread Christianity across the world too 3 Likes |
Crime / Re: Masquerades Arrested For Flouting Lockdown Order (Photos) by Positivist: 11:40am On Apr 14, 2020 |
AgentNairaland:The DPO wasn't the one who arrested the masquerade back then. |
Education / No Date Fixed For School Resumption - Education Ministry by Positivist: 1:41pm On Apr 13, 2020 |
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Career / Re: How Do I Become A Professor by Positivist: 12:08am On Nov 04, 2019 |
These are the requirements of becoming a professor in Nigeria https://educeleb.com/requirements-becoming-professor-nigeria/ |
Politics / Re: Femi Fani-Kayode Reacts To Mohammed Morsi's Death by Positivist: 9:08pm On Jun 19, 2019 |
SarkinYarki:Unlike Nigeria, Egypt is over 80% Muslim majority. Before Morsi and after him, the less than 10% Christian do not have such a slot at political power. Take your islamisation paranoia to the sewers. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Femi Fani-Kayode Reacts To Mohammed Morsi's Death by Positivist: 9:45am On Jun 18, 2019 |
SarkinYarki:Yet, he had a christian as a deputy. Olodo! 1 Like |
Education / Ogun Govt. Appoints Professor In Alleged Sex For Marks Scandal by Positivist: 4:09pm On Jun 17, 2019 |
A professor in an alleged sex for marks scandal at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Segun Awonusi would be heading a committee set up by the Ogun State government to look into the operational modalities of Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology, Abeokuta and Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia.https://educeleb.com/ogun-govt-appoints-professor-in-alleged-sex-for-marks-scandal/ |
Education / Re: Nti Pgde 2017 Yet To See Result After A Year by Positivist: 1:38am On Dec 13, 2018 |
The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) is yet to release the results of students enrolled in 2017 Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programme due to administrative issues pertaining to university affiliation. They are trying decentralise University affiliation into six. Read the details of why at https://educeleb.com/nti-yet-release-2017-pgde-results/ /[/quote] 1 Like |
Education / Colleges Of Education Lecturers Suspend Two Month Old Strike by Positivist: 8:42pm On Dec 05, 2018 |
Lecturers in Nigerian colleges of education have on Wednesday suspended their two month old strike. Under the aiegies of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), the teachers earlier embarked on a nationwide strike on 2nd October, 2018.Source: https://educeleb.com/college-of-education-lecturers-suspend-two-month-old-strike/ |
Education / ASUP To Begin Strike On December 12 by Positivist: 12:05am On Dec 05, 2018 |
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared that it would begin an indefinite strike from Wednesday, 12th December. This is as the strike by university lecturers clocked a month today. Source : https://educeleb.com/asup-strike-december-12/ 2 Likes 3 Shares |
Education / Re: Grace Ezenwa Wins Presidential Best Teachers Award, Gifted Brand New Car-PIX by Positivist: 8:39am On Oct 08, 2018 |
Ogun teacher, Anambra administrator win cars in Presidential Teachers’, Schools Excellence Award https://educeleb.com/ogun-teacher-anambra-administrator-win-cars-in-presidential-teachers-schools-excellence-award/ |
Education / WAEC Reschedules English Paper For New Date by Positivist: 9:58pm On Sep 17, 2018 |
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has postponed the English Language papers in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) for Private Candidates earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, 22nd September. The examination body revealed this on its official Twitter handle, @waecnigeria, when a candidate wanted a confirmation of the postponement of the paper. It said that the paper will now hold on 29th September. In the tweet response given over the weekend, the WAEC handler also directed candidates to visit its site to download an updated timetable. “English Language papers will be written on September 29, 2018. Please, go to our registration site (http:// registration.waecdirect.org ) and download the timetable,” it stated. Some pundits have speculated that the postponement is due to the gubernatorial election holding in Osun State on 22nd September, the earlier date of the examination. EduCeleb.com reports that the 2018 WASSCE for Private Candidates began on 14th August and is expected to end on 2nd October. It is believed that this development would give candidates more time to prepare for the all important examination paper. Source: https://educeleb.com/waec-reschedules-english-paper-for-new-date/ |
Education / Re: Neco Coordination 2018 by Positivist: 1:22pm On Jul 24, 2018 |
On Thursday, 26th July, examiners would converge on various NECO marking centres across Nigeria to mark the just concluded SSCE. If you're interested in learning more while making a little money through the marking/coordination exercise, visit https://educeleb.com/neco-marking-centres/ to see the list of NECO marking centres around you. You may either be an examiner or a checker. Here is your guide to understanding what these mean https://educeleb.com/how-to-become-an-examiner-or-checker-with-waec-and-neco/ |
Politics / Re: President Buhari Lauds Educational Ties Between Nigeria And Belarus by Positivist: 10:27am On Jul 16, 2018 |
Kudos to Belarus. ---- Nairaland moderators need to check how people make unintelligent comments on posts. It's appalling this platform is being left for derailers to damage its strength as a reputable source of information. |
Education / YABATECH Expells 19 Students Over Malpractices: See Their Names by Positivist: 5:05pm On Jul 02, 2018 |
The management of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos has expelled nineteen students of the institution over various offences relating to examination malpractices.https://educeleb.com/yabatech-expells-19-students-over-malpractices-see-their-names/ 1 Like 2 Shares |
Education / Re: Ambode Offers Fuhad Adetoro Ogunsanya, LASU Best Student N5m, Scholarship by Positivist: 5:09pm On May 23, 2018 |
SolutionMee:Stop raising false alarm. No government gave out such an amount. Not even that of Imo |
Romance / Re: SEE Picture That Proves That Your Neighbour Is Not Your Friend by Positivist: 9:36pm On Apr 28, 2018 |
The other neighbour may be on vacation. |
Education / Re: OAU Sex For Marks: What Monica Osagie Told Panel – Counsel by Positivist: 8:02pm On Apr 24, 2018 |
It's getting interesting. |
Nairaland / General / Questions About Otobo's Claim Of Bribery To Defame Apostle Suleman by Positivist: 10:45am On Jan 28, 2018 |
Re: Pastors, Politicians Paid Me To Destroy Apostle Suleiman, Otobo Confesses! Dear Otobo, Tell us the name of those pastors and politicians that arranged your meeting with Apostle Suleiman in a night club where you performed as a strip dancer. _ Tell us the names of those envious pastors and callous politicians that paid you to fly with Apostle Suleiman to Canada and lodge in a hotel. _ Kindly tell us the name of the pastors and politicians that paid you to get pregnant for the Apostle. _ Tell us the name of those pastors and politicians that told you to abort which almost killed you; after you bled for almost one year. _ Tell us the name of those pastors and politicians that told you to take $ 8,000 (the money he made from one-night crusade) from the Apostle. _Tell us the name of those pastors and politicians that told you to approach Festus Keyamo to lodge all your complaints and sue the Apostle. _ Tell us the name of those pastors and politicians that told Apostle Suleiman to first deny knowing you, but later accepted he knew you. _ What were the names of those pastors and politicians that made Apostle Suleiman first deny sending money to you, but later shut up when you provided empirical evidences through your UBA statement of account? _ Who were those pastors and politicians that pushed Apostle to conspire with GTBank officials to freeze your account? _ Lastly, did those pastors and politicians pay you jointly or separately? More and more questions to come....Nigerians are not fools. |
Politics / Re: Lagos State Suspends NURTW Operations by Positivist: 10:33pm On Jan 23, 2018 |
I'm positive that this tweet would be ineffective. |
NYSC / Re: Checkout Corpers Lodge In Awgu LGA Enugu State by Positivist: 6:30pm On Jan 19, 2018 |
That doesn't look as if people live there. So, what's the fuse about? |
NYSC / NYSC DG Charges Corps Members On Utilising SAED For Job Creation by Positivist: 6:28pm On Jan 19, 2018 |
https://educeleb.com/nysc-dg-charges-corps-members-utilising-saed-job-creation/ |
Family / Re: Oldest Woman In Benue Dies At 122 (Photo) by Positivist: 9:21pm On Jan 16, 2018 |
Such is life. No one lives forever. |
Education / Re: Can I Suspend My Admission And Continue Next Year Without Writing Jamb Again? by Positivist: 9:14am On Jan 13, 2018 |
Ugaboy:Deferment means postponement. You've been offered admission already and it's the admissions office of the school (or a similar office under the Registrar) that issued you it. By deferring the admission, you're simply notifying the school of your interest in continuing your programme at a later time. With that, the admission remains intact till the next year. Take note that deferring admission should be done before admission offers close. If you don't indicate that you're deferring admission early , the school would simply assume you are not accepting its offer and will not reckon with such request if it's coming too late. |
Education / Re: Can I Suspend My Admission And Continue Next Year Without Writing Jamb Again? by Positivist: 10:11pm On Jan 11, 2018 |
Ugaboy:You can defer your admission. Visit the admissions office of that school to check out the modalities of establishing that. Regards! |
Education / Re: Ogun Leads As NECO Releases November/december 2017 Result by Positivist: 6:19pm On Jan 09, 2018 |
Irrespective of the outcome, more work is needed to be done to improve the standard of examining in Nigeria 2 Likes |
Education / Gombe State University Website Hacked by Positivist: 12:11pm On Dec 28, 2017 |
The official website of the Gombe State University (GOMSU) has been hacked, |
Religion / Jesus As A Businessman By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo by Positivist: 5:41pm On Dec 11, 2017 |
We have to get the politics of religion right if we are ever going to get the religion of politics right. ------------------- Over two decades ago, at the library of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, I came across an essay called “Jesus as a Businessman.” What I read in the essay shocked me. Until then, I didn’t know that it was possible for normal people to think such unusual thoughts. Before that day, I believed I was the only crazy one. I feared my mind was going to send me to hell. But after reading that essay, I knew I was not alone. And even if I went to hell, I would have company. So I photocopied the essay and carried it on me for a very long time. Every now and then, I reread it just to marvel at the audacity of the writer. I watched as the photocopy ink faded off the papers but the thoughts the essay put in me did not fade. Until recently, I did not know who wrote the essay neither did I know the book it was extracted from. The other day, I found out that the essay was just an introduction and the first chapter of Bruce Barton’s 1925 book called “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus Christ.” In the book, advert executive, Bruce Barton, retells the story of Jesus Christ. Barton emphasizes some aspects of Jesus’ life that portrays him as an epitome of a modern day business man. The author asserts that Jesus used today’s marketing tools and advertizing strategies to build a formidable business empire. For example, Barton highlights the way Jesus picked his workers and the way he appointed his successor as proofs of great managerial skills. He contends that Jesus’ message was streamlined and spiced up with everyday real life stories. Barton insists that Jesus’ odd lifestyle was attention grabbing. Critics of Bruce Barton’s bestselling book accused him of “strained anachronistic exegesis” and of turning Jesus into the image of his advertizing world. I presume that Bishop David Oyedepo has read that book. And so has Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Pastor Chris Okotie, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Prophet T. B. Joshua and all the other pastors who brandish the prosperity preaching brand across Africa. If they haven’t read it, they must have read a book written by someone who read Barton’s book- like George Barna’s 1988 book, “Marketing the Church: What They Never Taught You About Church Growth.” It all came together for me in the last few weeks. After my interview with Pastor Tunde Bakare and Rev. Nimi Wariboko, I was very close to an epiphany. And last Sunday, in twitter exchanges with two Nigerians over Bishop David Oyedepo’s declaration that he did not build Convent University with church members’ tithes, offerings or donations, it clicked. We have to get the politics of religion right if we are ever going to get the religion of politics right. The obvious reason for the above statement is that our sense of ethics, or what remains of it, comes from our religious base. We have all but abandoned the ethics of our traditional African ways of life. So if the religious ethics fail, everything else will fail. The other reason is that the majority of our people take their cue from these religious leaders than all the media in the country. More people watch Bishop David Oyedepo each week than all the people who watch NTA news. So let us begin with Bishop Oyedepo’s defense against those who criticized his lifestyle and how he runs his church. “The last time the church paid my salary was December 1987,” he said. “Nobody heard it, not even the ministers in the church until 1997 and church members didn’t hear this until 2007.” On reading that, the first question that crossed my mind was, so how has Oyedepo been surviving without a salary? There were other questions like, why did it take ten years before the ministers knew? Let me leave out the evil questions like, doesn’t accountability and transparency require that the church members should know? And are we supposed to be impressed by the revelation? Before we even get to the answers to the questions above, let us look at other things Bishop Oyedepo revealed. He said, “In January of 1988, my wife asked me of money for feeding and I told her I had given my salary to God. And that was the last time she ever had to ask for feeding money ‘til date.” To crown it all, Oyedepo told his audience that, “Covenant University was built within seven months without any collection of any one naira tithes or offerings or donations of any kind from anywhere.” It was a direct response to those accusing him of building the university with contributions of members while setting tuition beyond the reach of an average church member. Based on my interview with Pastor Tunde Bakare and Rev. Nimi Wariboko, my best guess is that the likes of Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Pastor Chris Okotie, Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo, Prophet T. B. Joshua and others have been surviving on Pentecostal opaqueness. It works because nobody around them asks any questions. People who should hold them accountable are busy worshiping them. What is salary? Isn’t it that ugly thing you demand as an entitlement for the work you do? It gives a good public image to say the church does not pay you any salary when in fact the church takes care of most of your needs. These pastors also have at their disposal the ministries. In many cases, while churches may not pay these pastors, ministries do pay them. Most often, the churches do not own the ministries. Traditionally, it is the general overseers and their cronies who legally own the ministries. The average church members do not know there are demarcations between the ministries and the church. Those who are aware of such do not understand the demarcations. The ministries may handle tasks like printing the pastor’s books and selling the holy water. The ministries may own the churches’ fleets of vehicles, chains of schools and universities. Many church members would be surprised to find out that the private jet they gave as a gift to the pastor was not registered under the church’s name. If not registered directly as the property of the pastor it is registered as a property of one of the ministries owned by the pastor. Now the average reaction of a church member is to say that it is not his or her business what the pastor is doing with the offerings and the tithes and the donations. They argue that what they give in time, money and materials, they give to God and not to the pastor. So, they can afford to look away. They consider their contributions to God as something spiritual that do not follow the dictates of temporal matters. Such posturing sounds noble. Grand. Superior. But upon close examination, it appears hollow. It is more of an excuse not to be involved, not to accept any responsibility and not to demand accountability. Without acknowledging it, that nonchalant attitude sets the stage for the inevitable scandals that will ultimately cripple the same institutions members are trying to build with their resources. The real question to ask as a follower of Jesus is, if Jesus were to attend the same church as you, would he tolerate all the gamesmanship going on there? Would the man who chased the money changers out of the temple close his eyes to all the iniquities going on in your church? Doesn’t being a Christian make you a mandatory reporter? A reporter who must not just report an abuse but is required by the law of conscience to stop it? If you see abuse and you don’t stop it, doesn’t that make you as guilty as the abuser? Doesn’t that make you an accomplice and an enabler? We have to get the politics of religion right if we are ever going to get the religion of politics right. If you cannot ask what Jesus would do on matters happening right inside your church, what are the chances that you will ask what Jesus would do on matters outside your church? Those who do not care where tithes from their pockets go, cannot care about where Nigeria's oil wealth, picked up from the ground, is going? It is attitudes like these that lead to the thinking, “I voted for Goodluck Jonathan but not for the PDP.” Our church goers are willing to sow a seed without going back to water the seed and tend it as it grows. Yet, they are surprised at what happens to the seed - like the Winners Chapel flock who are surprised that the seed they thought they sowed towards the building of Convent University did not grow. They are surprised that actually Bishop Oyedepo built the university all by himself without a dime from anybody. Consequently, what they thought was ‘ours’ is really Oyedepo’s. Bishop David Oyedepo and other pastors like him are people nobody knows- not even their church members. They abhor transparency and accountability. They apply the principles of modern business in running their Christian empires. The structure of their empires is simple. At the head is a church under which are chains of subsidiary companies called ministries but are legally known as charities. The church itself operates like any other franchise - Starbucks, McDonald’s, or Tantalizers. Everything is about product and profit. These General Overseers/CEOs set up rubber stamp board of directors who sign off on whatever the CEO wants. Meticulously, they prepare their children to succeed them and continue the family business. Bruce Barton may have written the book about Jesus as a businessman but it is the Oyedepos who are living it. Oyedepo and his co travelers have successfully forced Jesus into the image of their world instead of turning themselves into Jesus’ image. They are the epitome of Jesus as a businessman. Correct me if I’m right. |
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