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Tough match for Nadal.
Del petro is GOOD but @ 4th set, he is showing signs of tiredness.
Nadal still kicking strong.

davidylan:
Nadal takes third set 7-6 (4)

that's why he is number 1 in the world. You cant win that many grand slams without good footwork. The best tennis players are those with excellent attack AND DEFENCE (you need footwork here).

Some people's adrenalin will soon be running wild.

~Bluetooth:
The man should have willed all his wealth to Orphanage.Useless pikins

whether it was willed to orphanage, family cat or pet dog, the Nigerian children will still fight.

Bunch of money-miss-road. Born with silver spoon in their a$$.
They are so scared of poverty, they are fighting over inheritance.

SURROGACY
Surrogate parenting is not new to one of the neighbours of this writer who gave his name only as Dinfa, he claimed that the immediate younger sister to his best friend has rented her body to bear a child for a couple in one of Abuja’s richest and famous districts.
Incidentally, the practice comes with some conditions. According to Dinfa, the contract with this particular lady only allows for her family members to see her for one hour twice a month, and no stranger was allowed to come along.

‘’If madam is asleep, you can sneak in” from the main gate to the sitting room.

The house was extraordinarily beautiful with stylish wooden chairs at the open sun terrace by the entrance of the house.

The wealth expended to decorate the sitting room equally radiates in the body and appearance of once poor Victoria.

Victoria’s story was simple, after her secondary education three years ago she was impregnated by her boyfriend and could not abort the unwanted pregnancy “due to certain issues,” she said unfortunately the baby was a still born upon delivery.

“Since then I became a born again Christian and I got a job in a pharmacy at Wuse area. Later on I began to attend a wonderful church whom my employer introduced me to. That was where I met this couple and when I heard their story especially the humiliation madam suffered for her inability to bear a child I felt for her,” said Victoria.

According to Victoria who is 21, even the word surrogacy was not known to her when she made up her mind to help this couple let alone its implications. “My only fear then was the medical check-up I was going to undergo and how to convince my brother (guide) to talk to mum because dad is late.”

The tests were successful. Victoria was cleared of having any kind of disease. Her mother, only brother and three other sisters gave her their blessings. Everyone has agreed that Victoria has travelled with relative to abroad to work as a nanny to them. While madam to whom she is bearing a child for equally puts up the same story for her in-laws to nurse her pregnancy abroad where there is excellent medical services.

The two women are said to have never gone out of the house for the past four months since Victoria was artificially inseminated with the sperm and egg of her host family “because madam cannot go through pregnancy.” She is very excited “I am going to give birth abroad, we may leave when the pregnancy is seven months.” |The expression on the face of Victoria revealed that she does not harbour the slightest regrets for her actions.

“My sister was given 400,000 naira before the pregnancy and after three months of delivery and breastfeeding she will be given 600,000 naira, this is in addition to a six-month trip abroad,” Victoria’s brother explained, adding that for their family this is a break through. “The money given so far has been invested in their education and retail business for the family.” he concluded.

All over the world infertile couples have an option that was never available a couple of decades ago and many have suffered either divorce or from high blood pressure that led to several deaths. But thanks to high-tech science that have made it possible for people like poor Victory to rent her body to help a rich couple desperately in search of a child.

But what are the ethical and moral implications of this kind of assisted reproductive techniques? When young girls like Victoria rent their body to have a baby because large sums of money are involved and an opportunity to go abroad, it has become an “involuntary servitude and slavery” said Zara Ibrahim Musa, a banker with Jaiz in Abuja.

One account said the rich are “strip-mining the fertility of the poor.” In the United States, where this practice is no longer news, the New Jersey Supreme Court recognized the potential for the rich to exploit the poor and in a surrogacy case stated: “There are, in short, values that society deems more important than granting to wealth whatever it can buy, be it labour, love or life.”

The Supreme Court of France also stated that surrogate motherhood violates a woman’s body and that “the human body is not lent out, is not rented out, is not sold,” said the account. “We will wait to hear what our Supreme Court in Nigeria will say about Surrogacy,” Zara intoned.

In this case Nigerians are lying and hiding their contracts with surrogates not because the law forbids it but because of the stigma such a contract may create due to the strong culture of traditional parenthood. The World Health Organization (WHO) admits that the field of assisted reproductive techniques “constantly challenges social norms, moral and ethical standards and legal systems.”

However, one observer said he does not have problem with the recent South African surrogacy case where a 48-year-old South African gave birth to her own three grandchildren. Pat Anthony acted as surrogate mother for her 25-year-old daughter, whose uterus was removed three years ago. Mrs. Anthony was implanted with four of her daughter’s eggs that were fertilized in a laboratory with sperm from her son-in-law.

She gave birth to triplets; two boys and a girl were delivered by caesarean section at a Johannesburg hospital. This case, according to moralists, added fuel to the moral and legal controversy surrounding surrogacy and a religious dilemma, since the family in question are Roman Catholics, and the Vatican has condemned surrogacy.

This observer said, the 48-year-old mother did very well, “she bore her daughter for nine months, took care of her throughout her life and when she married her out she realised that her daughter is barren and she sacrifice her body for her daughter’s happiness and her own happiness as well. Her daughter has three children the mother has three grand children.”

In the past, there was only one way to have a baby, but modern technology has added variations that ignited debates that listed several new reproduction techniques: “(1) Artificial insemination of the wife (either by the husband’s seed or by a donor’s). (2) Embryo transfer. If the woman cannot produce viable eggs, another woman can be inseminated with the husband’s sperm. The fertilized egg can then be extracted from the female donor and implanted in the wife’s uterus.

(3) Invitro fertilization. The wife’s egg is extracted and fertilized in the laboratory by the husband’s sperm, then implanted in the wife. (4) Surrogate mother. If the wife is unable to go through a pregnancy, another woman can be artificially inseminated with the husband’s sperm and have the baby for them. (5) Frozen materials. Sperm, eggs, and embryos can all be frozen and stored for use in one of the ways outlined above”

Victoria claimed her pregnancy was a combination of number 3 and 4 mentioned above. But do our society and most especially religion permit such a practice? Surrogate pregnancy is not allowed in Islam because of the issues of parentage and inheritance. According to Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, former President of the Islamic Society of North America, “based on the principle that the Shari`ah came to protect and preserve the lineage or nasab of the people and thus it is haram to marry a woman during her `iddah or to have an intercourse with a woman who is carrying another person’s pregnancy, the Muslim jurists have allowed the use of invitro fertilization only between legally married couples during their marriage. Thus invitro fertilization is permissible as long as the semen and ovum are from the couple who are legally married and the fertilization takes place during their marriage, not after divorce or the death of the husband.

Dr. Siddiqi said “a divorced woman is not allowed to receive the fertilized ovum (embryo) from her ex-husband. Similarly, a widow is not allowed to take it after the death of her husband. Surrogacy, i.e., giving the embryo to another woman to carry on the pregnancy in her womb is also not permissible in Islam,” he concluded.

Popular Christian beliefs stated that gestational surrogacy too defiles the marriage bed. “True, the fertilized egg would be a union of the husband and his wife, but it is thereafter placed in the womb of another woman and, in fact, makes her pregnant. This pregnancy is not the result of sexual relations between the surrogate woman and her own husband.

Thus, her reproductive organs are now being used by someone other than her own mate. This is inconsistent with the Bible’s moral principles that a woman bears a child for her own husband. (Compare Deuteronomy 23:2.) It would not be proper for a man other than the surrogate’s own husband to make use of her reproductive organs. It is an improper use of the marriage bed. Thus, surrogate motherhood is not for Christians,” a widely read Christian publication stated.

Source:http://www.dailytrust.com/weekly/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1648:amazing-story-of-abuja-surrogate-mum-&catid=36:report&Itemid=31

OP,
Settle that matter before marriage or else you will marry at your own risk!
Dont be blinded by love.

Just wondering what all the fuss is about. Are Catholics not christians? Y'all makes it look as if Pentecostal and Catholics are different religions

Yes Christians but They have different doctrines, values and beliefs. Just like Jehovah Witness, Latter Day Saints, White garment. They are all Christians right?

Let me do some analysis for Hotel based on estimated assumptions.

Rooms: 30
With Reception/Conference hall, Internet/Cyber cafe, Restaurant
Assuming the hotel cost N60 million to build and furnish.

Avg Daily rate/room = N10,000

capex = N60,000,000
Assuming Monthly Income (of half month/half room capacity a month =15rooms X 15days/month) = 15 X 15 X 10,000 = N2,250,000
Assuming Monthly expenses = N1,000,000 ( Salaries, Security, Miscellaneous, Consumables and Electricity)
Estimated Monthly Profit = N1,250,000
Assuming we ignore other revenue from internet cafe, conference hall rent and restaurant.


Estimated Payout period = 60,000,000/1,250,000 = 48months. = 4 years.
With good management and good marketing this period could be less.


FOR SCHOOL
It varies a lot, depends on the:
kind of school(kindergarten/primary/Secondary).
Number of classroom.
Teachers.
Location.
Parents trust and confidence over time.

Hope you have enough cash to feed the chicks for some month before they start shitting eggs for you.
That can be capital intensive.

You should have done all the budget/project analysis by now.

Hello,
Does any one know if there is a post office in the lagos international or domestic airports?
Do they also sell postage stamps there?

Which area is it located? Departure or Arrival?

Thanks in advance for your response.

Pls help with this:

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LOL. I am a fan of Nadal but tough luck this time. He wont have a chance to bite a trophy unless he wakes up from his so-called injuries.
The injuries he inflicted on himself.

medjai:
Geez. . . Clijsters is a beast. 6 - 3, 6 - 3 over Zvonareva.


Na Li vs Kim Clijsters

Now this ladies finals between Li and Kim is quite unpredictable.
I feel its gonna be explosive.

But if I have to choose, I will go for Kim once again.

medjai:
Vera has won 3 of their last 4 meetings.

US Open champion Clijsters repeated her New York win over Vera Zvonareva, this time easing to a 6-3 6-3 victory.

Thats my Girl.

medjai:
Dolgopolov wins the third set 7 - 6. This is the first time Murray is dropping a set in this tournament.

Murray  wins the 4th set to take the game.
Looks like the top 4 seeds going for the semi-finals
1. Fedex vs Djokovic
2. Nadal vs Murray

Why is tennis always like this,  I want bright newcomers to challenge these 4 guys out of the scene.
Their games are becoming too predictable,

^^^
I go for Kim.
She is like a moving train.

the belt of his trousers are on his chest.

I support baby-friendly. But not "5-year old"-friendly.

^^^ Thanks for your response.
The "give give and give" sermons is becoming distractive from the real messages for christian's spiritual growth.
And it is quite discouraging and confusing to new converts and first timers to church who do not understand the "give your offering or pay your tithe" messages.
Anyway. Thank you.

1 Timothy 6:10  

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

REGARDING ALL TYPES OF GIVING (FIRST FRUIT, TITHE, SEED, BROTHERLY HELP, ALMS, ETC)

JESUS SAID:
Luke 6:38  
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.


PAUL SAID:
2 Corinthians 9:7  
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.


GIVE AS YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD. OR DO NOT GIVE AS YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD NOT.
IT SHOULD NOT BE BY FORCE.

@ Grace5 and Olaadegbu,
Please I have this question.
Is it proper to attend and/or give offerings (any type) in any church irrespective of the kind of pastors or church it is.
To be more specific, if there is a kind of manipulation in consistently asking people to give using several scripture references.
Meanwhile the pastor is much richer than the church members, living in a big house and driving a big car.
Yet every service he is preaching and asking them to give and give. Those that dont give are told that all their problems is becuase they did not give.
Is this right?

Enough room to cheat on both sides,
Or else temptation and loneliness will kill some people.

Idi Amin, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Mobutu Sese Seko, Charles Taylor, Robert Mugabe, IBB, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, OBJ etc.
African power hungry leaders will never learn.
Lets keep praying for CD'I, For God to avert the imminent bloodshed of african blood.

People beware.
Scammers and bank fraudsters will cash in on this "account update directive" and obtain account details of innocent bank customers.
Be careful.

yetibabe:
Check out www.afrofoodtv.com for a classic party style fried rice recipe and cooking video. Enjoy!!!

thank you, Yetibaby.

Na today? 95% of nigerians will not even notice this PHCN system collapse or strike action.
The country has been in darkness for ages.
All types of darkness (Political, Economical, Adminstrative Religious/Spiritual, Educational darknesses).

Super story, LOL.

OMG
Just like that?

It has not finished teaching me.
I am still in class.

faraday62:
I am so disappointed in my wife. we have been married for 2 months now. i always thought i was about 2 years older than her  only to find out that she is actually 3 years older after a year  of marriage. [/b]I am very disgusted because under no circumstances did i think i will marry a lady that much older than me. I told her that age was a big criteria before we got married. Its not fair that she should do this to me. We dated for 3 years before we tied the knot . I am already 33 and she is actually about 36 by her confession. We are having problems conceiving that's [b]why she confessed. Doctors say female fertility drops with age. Fertility even drops further after 35. I am really disgusted with her. I feel all the love I had evaporating. I really don't think I can continue with the marriage. Its just too early for a separation. I hate any thing based on lies. Please folks advise me cos i am currently looking a younger girls still in the university.

How are you sure she is still not lying? Because she confessed does not mean she is telling the whole truth this time around.
Hope you will not be surprised if she re-confesses again that she is actually 7 years older than you.  LOL.

My brother no worry, It happened to Adam,  In the beginning, in the bible Eve deceived Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. That was the beginning of deception in marriage. But adam did not divorce Eve. Their marriage continued after being banished from the garden of eden(I can only guess how Adam felt).

A man woke up one day after about 20 years of marriage only to find out that he is not the biological father of 2 of his 3 grown-up children.
The wife confessed when medical test exposed her.

Abeg, So just forgive her and move on.
Thats marriage, you got the marriage certificate before taking the exams. Sorry o.

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Chukwu gozie ndi igbo Nairaland Mmaji kuru mmaji.


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