₦airaland Forum

chinedum45: See how u all appreciate the pix. imagine it was that of our President..I bet u would have read more abuse than goodwill. This is what i call pschyological enslavement...learn to love your own as u love that of others.

Abeg! Park well. People here tell it as it is, no gain saying. Obama has a beautiful family, and we all appreciate that. There is no way you could compare obama's to the picture of Jona and family. Look at the obese kid! Does he look presentable as the first son of this country?

chief batiatus: Pls don't insult people just because NL is anonymous. What do you mean by thieving ways? That woman has not stolen a dime in SEC, if she did she would have been out with all the hatred borne her by the real thieves at national assembly. in 2011 SEC under Oteh spent N1.2billion on ICT infrastructure turnaround and ALL the companies that won jobs all won on merit! I also have it on authority none of them could go near her to say 'thank you'. I dare you to refute this so that I can lambast you with more details. Please stop insulting people who are doing the right thing even if they have some personality issues, focus on what their assignment is and whether they are meeting it. Oteh was a vice president at ADB before coming to nigeria, go and ask what her annual package is? Aside ADB staff have diplomatic status incase your ignorant self is unaware. She was already very very successful before coming back to this crap country

You are just one of those apologist that makes me sick with disgust. How could you defend her? She's part of a corrupt ruling class that are bent on destroying whats left of this country

The truth is many Nigeria men got issues with their weight. But sadly the society here never tries to address this issue. They often associate full figure with being well-fed. I see men and women with really ugly shapes ( fat tummy, protruding rump, awkward "S" shape) walking around like the sexiest things. The most annoying are obese men who form "big man", and the local chicks tend to flock around them. seriously how can that be sexy??

Ngwakwe: He was the best Governor in Nigeria in his first term.

Mind you second term can be anything different which you and me is yet to understand.

Best what? This guy ruined Abia state. I had a project in Aba during his tenure. He purloined the state curfews with his family, particularly his mother.

puntersmind: How is Pastor Oritsejeafor wrong to have collected the gift? I baffle at some comments I read here on Nairaland. I think this whole idiosyncrasy from nairalanders is a product of the poverty of the mind. What's wrong in accepting a gift from your church members, even if its a flamboyant one? Strive and be rich, get busy and you lot will stop thinking it's a big deal to own a private jet. As long as it's not bought with an ill-gotten wealth, what's the fuss? Grow-up Nairalanders.

If its a gift, then let him sell it and help the needy!! Isn't that the bible teaching?

onatisi: thank u my brother,i dont think it is necessary arguing with ppl on this topic ,the man now has a private jet and if anyone has a problem with that or feel angry about it the person can go nd jump into the lagoon ,el rufai can hang himself ,the final verdict is oristajefor has a jet.period

With your kinda mentality the kerfuffle will continue, we'll never make progress in this country. I just can't understand what makes you think it makes religious sense for him to blow billions on a jet;
Please stop this nonsense about members buying him a jet!!!!

MAYOWAAK: What is wrong with a pastor owning a small plane for God's work in this jet age? Please, let’s get out of this poverty mentality mold. Rich people don't see anything wrong with it, only poor people do. Lol!

Somebody is asking, how owning a jet will benefit the preaching of God's word.

Firstly, our dear Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor can now preach in four Nigerian states or two countries in one day and still return back to Warri to sleep.
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Secondly, I am believing God for my own Jet too.

I hope that with these few points of mine, I have been able to convince you and not to confuse you that it is good for pastors to own private Jets

It's wrong!!!! Millions are hungry in this shythole country. He should not spend billions of naira on a jet when he could feed many hungry souls.

Ile-Ife:
lol, Mallam Dey ginger. private jets are used like Church buses. It's not a shoe that fits only the senior pastor or bishop. these guys, their staff and their pastors move around alot, so if they can afford it, why not? people should stop making it look like they use it to party and enjoy. The situation in the country makes things like this worth. bad roads, security and the recent confession on how (bellview/sosoliso) was blown up.

What a nonsense! Can't they spend the jet funds on projects that would make life better for church members? A country with high unemployment, lacking portable water, Insufficient food supply, poor health care etc.,

I'm beginning to realize the obvious -too many kids on NL. The young lady poured her heart out, seeking an advice from you guys. But some folks here are already labeling her egocentric, etc. she said it as it is for her. If you think she's the problem, then advice her. How would feel airing your thoughts, only to get comments like shut the f*ck, sh*t, egocentric blah blah blah?
It's haughty!

Smooyis: If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and call on me...........so says the Lord. If only we can get rid of pride and seek for God's intervention. Take it or leave it Nigeria and nigerians need deliverance! From evil forces dat are bent on frustrating all efforts towards growth. Not until we recognise our God sent saviour. Until then, songs of lamentation can continue.........

Guy, you blame these on evil forces, but the problems are man made. If we continue with this kinda attitude, things ain't gonna change in this Shyt hole of a country.

taharqa: SHUT yr mouth you eediot. Virtually ALL of the bad practices and infractures the incomplete report indicatd happend way b4 GEJ became President. GEJ didnt cause d problem, he is rectifying them. If this report had not been so shamelessly politicizd, the focus wud hv been in putting pressure on d NA to pass d PIB bill which d President has sent to them (we all were essentially insulting d President, demanding he shld quickly send d bill to d NA which he has since done) cos MOST of d recommendatns of d committee are already in d very critical PIB bill dat wud completely turn-around d opaque oil industry and make it more open.....on dis issue of unverified data, it was Ribadu himself that wrote d govt that d committee did not verify d data it usd to come to SOME of its findings and then askd d govt to verify d figures demselves; so eida the govt takes its time to verify d data as Ribadu suggestd Or d govt sends d report back to d committee to complete its work COS there is no way govt can legally use d findings of a committee that admittd on its report that its figures hv not been verified/reconcild to retrieve monies from Oil companies even if we know sm of dem are still owing us. It is just as simple as that; there's no need been overtly Emotional about this

Just look at this chap! What good has Jonathan done? My friend, things are difficult in this country.

Omo, I'm tired of this country.
*Bleep* the country!
*Bleep* all the mo'fvckers on this site who act and write like everything in this Shyt hole country is honkeydoorey!
Hello people! It ain't rosy here; and those in charge are a bunch of greedy coons.
Churches are everywhere.... Wickedness everywhere!!! I wonder how people can claim to be born again when every facet of life here is corrupt.Nothing is in anyway easy, i mean nothing! except you throw money at it.

Sorry, good fellas, I had to air my frustrations! But no apologies to dumb coons!

fergusen: Okupe is correct

how's the prickk correct? Did you read paragraph 4?

Paragraph four of the covering letter read: “The data used in this report was presented by various stakeholders who made submissions to the Task Force of our assignment at various dates, which have been disclosed in relevant sections of the report. Due to the time frame of the assignment, some of the data used could not be independently verified and the task force recommends that the government should conduct such necessary verifications and reconciliations.”

Red-Light:
Arab world, always looking 4 trouble, now when they get what they bargained for in multiple, they will start shouting genocide, america did dis, israel did that.. Bloody savages

Wetin you dey talk? Why America no dey mind their business. Why they go dey find trouble for another country. Earlier in the year, them fly their drone enter Iran... Iran catch the drone. Now them dey fly near Iran to spy on the country. Why this America like wahala .
We don tire!!!

semid4lyfe: Jhezuz!

So Osaze is still bearing grudges and bitter about what happened 2 years ago? He's even a bigger baby than I thought.

Make hin go jare. . .we won't miss him at all as our team is brimming in the attack department.

I mean, who needs Osaze when there's an Ike Uche, Victor Moses, Ahmed Musa, Brown Ideye, Ejike Uzoenyi, Emmanuel Emmenike, Ekhigo Ehiosun, Obafemi Martins etc?

If no be hin wife and unborn baby, I for talk sey make hin go drink Hydrochloric Acid.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

This kind of attitude is wrong! The young man does not want to play anymore. That's his decision. You mustn't bad-mouth him. What's wrong with you folks? I don't understand the kind of people on this site.

cashmentor: Well, i love this earth, i'd have love to be here forever, but i'm from Mars!

Rubbbbish.... Who'd want to be identified with the roots of Terrorists, thieves, scammers and Drug Lords after all? No one wants to be related to a Mad Man.... We don hear una, ok, take your money and Go back to The Land of Milk and Hardknocks! Why didn't your mum name your late sis (may her soul rest in peace) a South African or Ghanian name, of all countries, she Choosed a Nigerian Name and u telling me about Loving Africa, i don't know your roots, but, with your own excuse, something tells me you Gals are Lying and hiding something!
I still Love you Girls though, keep making me Proud!

What the hell is wrong with you Nigerians?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dimeji2009dj: that is how it should be. To before warn is to before harm.

Guy, na where you learn your English?

giles14: De iron drone was mad 4 fast fly projectiles of about mach2 and above

Jeez! Where did you get that from?
Iron dome is a radar / missile defense system designed to intercept and destroy short range rockets and artillery shell like the Lebanese katyusha and hamas qassam rockets.

The second Lebanese war with Israel exposed the failures of the iron dome. It couldn't withstand massive rocket barrage fired by Hezbollah.

And why should Israel be the only country allowed to have nuclear capability in Mideast? Why?

Prof Corruption: Iron Dome is not made for drone, it's made for missiles!

LoL.. What's the difference between a missile and a drone?
The drone succeeded in getting into Israeli airspace, and that's a success for Hezbollah.
Drone + bomb = guided cruise missile!

Guy, all the banks here are a mess; long queues, poor service, staff with poor work ethics, etc.

Harbb: One feature that thrills me about my iPhone is how I can quickly scan my document anytime the need for that arises without having to look for a scanning machine. I then attach it to my mail and send it anywhere anytime. I don't know whether SG3 does that.

Sorry, how do you scan with an iPhone?

chocckidd: with my gs3 yesterday i was downloading skyfall with utorrent while tweeting and watching bourne legacy with the pop up feature.and all this while my hotspot was on and being used by my junior bro to ping with his bb

Which carrier are you using, and what data package? On your data package, you can download movies?

What happened to the funds for national iD?

Why do ibos hate themselves? Or why do Nigerian hate themselves? On thursdays at Alaba market, Ibo traders were busy fighting themselves over the chairmanship of the Market. Gun shots were fired. 'agberos' were on rampage. Its disheartening to see the level of corruption and brutality at federal level, mirrored down to the local communities, down to welfare associations. No hope for this country....no hope!

Jeez! Can't y'all read and understand? The report says 2011 oil production level will drop in 41yrs time at this current rate of production. It didn't say oil wells will dry up in 41yrs. IT'S SIMPLE ENOUGH!!!!!!!! Fvck!!!!

Letter from one of the most evil King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883 (from Reunionblackfamily)

http://allafrica.com/stories/200510060035.html

The letter which follows is Courtesy of Dr. Vera Nobles and Dr. Chiedozie Okoro. Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883

Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots:

The task that is given to fulfill is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already. They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I don’t know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else’s wife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators and industrials, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the world. For these things, you have to keep watch on disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid that, they get interested in it, and make you murderous] competition and dream one day to overthrow you.

Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will inherit the heaven” and, “It’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.” You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic System and their war fetish – warfare protection – which they pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.

Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won’t revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent’s teachings. The children have to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul. You must singularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the schools, teach students to read and not to reason. There, dear patriots, are some of the principles that you must apply. You will find many other books, which will be given to you at the end of this conference. Evangelize the niggers so that they stay forever in submission to the white colonialists, so they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite every day – “Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them.”

Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you in sign of recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit their villages. And make sure that niggers never become rich. Sing every day that it’s impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the poor, to build flourishing business centres. Institute a confessional system, which allows you to be good detectives denouncing any black that has a different consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker. Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never present a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don’t give him more than one cigarette. Never invite him for dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.

“The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian missionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr. Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 while working in the Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech in the Bible. – Dr. Chiedozie Okoro

We should note:

1] that all missionaries carried out, and still carry out, that mandate. We are only lucky to have found King Leopold’s articulation of the aim of all Christian imperialist missionaries to Africa.

2] Even the African converts who today manage the older churches in Africa (the priests, bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals etc of the Roman and Protestant sects), and especially also those who evangelize Born-Again Christianity, still serve the same mandate. Which is why they demonize African gods and Anglicize African names, and drop the names of African deities which form part of African names; and still attack and demolish the African shrines that have managed to survive, e.g. Okija.

3] Those Africans who voluntarily converted to Christianity before the colonial conquest such as Affonso I of the BaKongo in the 15th century probably did not discern the purpose of the brand of Christianity that was supplied to them. Which was probably why they fell easy prey to the missionaries and the white traders and pirates who followed them.

But their Japanese counterparts probably did discern the game, even without access to some version of Leopold’s letter. But even if the Japanese Shoguns did not intuit what Leopold makes explicit, they clearly realized the danger of Japanese converts to Christianity forming a fifth column within Japanese society and state, a fifth column loyal to their co-religionists in Europe. To rid Japan of that danger, in the late 16th century, the Shoguns began their expulsion of Portuguese and Spanish missionaries on the grounds that they were forcing Japanese to become Christian, teaching their disciples to wreck temples, taking and trading slaves, etc. Then, in 1596, it became clear to the Japanese authorities that Christianization had been a prelude to Spanish conquest of other lands; and Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, it quickly dawned on them that a fifth column loyal to Rome and controlled by the priests of a foreign religion was a clear and present danger to the sovereignty of a newly unified Japan. Soon after, the persecution and suppression of Japanese Christians began. Early in the 17th century, sensing the danger from a creed that taught obedience to foreign priests rather than the Japanese authorities, all missionaries were ordered to leave and all Japanese were ordered to register at the Buddhist temples. When Japanese Christians took part in a rebellion, foreign priests were executed, the Spanish were expelled and Japanese Christians were forbidden to travel abroad. After another rebellion, largely by Christians, was put down, the Japanese Christians were suppressed and their descendants were put under close state surveillance for centuries thereafter. In the 1640s all Japanese suspected of being Christians were ruthlessly exterminated. Thus did Japan, by 1650, save itself from the first European attempt to mentally subvert, conquer and colonize it.

4] The African captives who were taken abroad and enslaved, and the Africans at home after the European conquest, having already been forcibly deprived of their autonomy, were in no political position to resist Christianization. Thus the Christianity still practised in all of the African American diaspora, just as that in the African homeland since the start of the 20th century, continues to carry out the Leopoldian mandate.

Hence, for example, whereas the White Born-Agains of the USA, when in the US Navy ships in WWII, sang:

“Praise the Lord,

And pass the ammunition,”

the attitude of African Born-Again converts today is best summed up as:

“Praise the Lord,

And lie down for the manna.”

Thanks to a century or more of this Leopold-mandated missionary mind control, African Christians are not an activist, self-helping, economically engaged, politically resolute, let alone militant bunch. Hence their putting up with all manner of mistreatment and exploitation by their misrulers, white and black. The most they are disposed to do to their misrulers is to admonish them to “Fear God!” – as one protester’s miserable placard read in last week’s Lagos demonstration against the latest of the murderous fuel price hikes by the OBJ Misgovernment. The idea of an uprising to tame their misrulers is alien to the religiously opiated frame of mind of the Nigerians.

5] The lesson in the contrast between an Africa that the Christian missionaries brainwashed and subverted, and a Japan where this brainwashing and subversion was forcibly prevented, is stark and clear. What then must Africans of today begin to do to save themselves from brainwashing by their White World enemies here on earth? – That is the question.

Oil has not really done much for us a country, has it? why bother hoping on oil wealth when also the neo-politicians, who we thought would reform the country, are busy looting our common lot just like the old guards.

Honestly, I have lost all hope for this country. I doubt things will change. The new generations are just like the same fools that brought this mess of a country on us. They lack reason. They are busy filling their guts with greed. No wonder they look so rotund and brash.

Some fool dumped his old roofings on the road. Apparently to fill the pot holes. They are asbestos roofings. Now that is carcinogenic. This fool knows that. Rather than pay for a proper disposal, he dumps his thrash on a busy road for 'okada boys' to inhale. Sunday worship, he will be in church singing ' lord, do something good in our lives'. Fvcked country!!

It saddens me that Nigerians are always too rash in their comments. The report did not say oil production will end in 41 yrs, but level of production will drop from 2011 production level in 41 yrs .
*we are always in a hurry to do everything, and not taking time to think things through before acting. I reckon that's why this country is so fvcked.

There's nothing wrong with these new measures. I wish there's a way to 'domesticate' these danfo drivers and conductors. They are just too freaking wild.

justwise: You have not answered any question, all you have done all long is to repeat the same thing...which is that the allegations were cooked up and he did not break any law US law.

Why would an innocent person who committed no crime be running away from the law for 2yrs? He was not charged for any offence but an allegation, Sweden and US does not have any extradition agreement, so why would Sweden extradict him to US?

There's a secret US grand jury indictment on Assange; that's the reason he doesnt want to be extradited to Sweden, and was offered an asylum by Ecuador. Leaked global intelligence files (GIFiles) from Stratfor show intel analysts talking about a secret indictment. US has not been transparent about this.
Sweden wants Assange extradited for questioning only, as they claim. However they refused to honor the invitation to question Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Also, many western financial firms are refusing to process payments made to wikileaks. All of these hint of a plot by US plus western allies and corporation to get back at Assange for cablegate files .

justwise: Why is the islamic nations against the west?

What do you mean Islamic nations? You talking of all the OIC members?
You got to remember that many nations are tired of the west's biased stance and policies, most hated is the US. People are now wary of deifying the US. Today's unipolar world has given rise to the west concentrating more powers, and excessively bullying other nations. Remember Libya, Iraq, and now Syria. I see hypocrisy in western policies: CIA rendition - kidnap for torture; Guantanamo -arbitrary detention; US/ Isreal's extra judicial killings of Iranian scientists; coups / regime change; using democracy and human rights to affect Western interests.