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That is what they are called - 'Performing Artistes'. Experts at putting up a show. Lots of fizz, very little bang. Lots of hype, practically no substance. If they are your role models or they consume even 1Mb of your valuable critical thinking all I can say is, sorry. You have just been entertained.

BackDatAssUp:
CQB with Ak-47assault rifles?

Too bulky, unstable firing, no suppressor to reduce muzzle flash.

They should be using what the Nigerian Navy- bullup semi automatic rifles.

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Ak-47 is crap in close quarter battle scenarios.

It is more reliable. If you have been in harms way your priority will be a solid defence which means reliability which means the AK. With all due respect the Navy is the last place you should be looking for a personal assault weapon.

tonytony208:
mr, you are not using your senses. The person you quoted was not abusing buhari's old age. He was abusing his intonation and there is no harm in that; except of course you are the INTOLERANT type.

When OBJ was president, his intonation got abused repeatedly, yet none of OBJ's supporters were cursing pple like you are doing.

Maybe we should begin to CURSE anyone who had ever called GEJ clueless that they will never live as long as GEJ.

If you know you are INTOLERANT to public criticisms why can't you just remain in daura and never push yourself forward into public view?

I've noticed a trend with APC members and their candidate; they are highly INTOLERANT; which makes them the wrong choice to lead a complex Nigeria.

Mr, your comment is insensible and unreasonable.

Said it a while ago. The lack of power is more than made up by the comfort of opposition. The best days in the sun for the APC are coming to an end. If power is won expect it to come with widespread public angst. At least those APC governors who cannot isolate and insulate their local economies will run out of excuses and lightening rods if their party is handed power by the ever hopeless and irresponsible general public who cannot even wipe their backsides without Federal Government 'Intervention.'

Political power is just overated. Even the erstwhile high flying Tony Abott is fending off a palace coup just months after sweeping to victory.

coldsummer:
[size=18pt]All the troubles of nigeria in one room[/size]

Yes, representing you folks - the main troubles outside. Nigerians and buck passing. In 3 or 4 years Buhari or Goodluck will be a villan and people will yearn and kill themselves over...yes, a new troubler.

ishiamu:
This group is just bigger than we know..... they need collective efforts to eradicate


Lalasticlala, seun, ishilove, obinoscopY

Than you, you, you know. I said the feedstock to this menace is several times larger than all the armed forces of Africa. A body count of ten insurgents to one soldier is still a significant loss. That is why long term there is no military solution. A de-escalation is imperative. This conflict can easily ground our economy if it drags on for long. Those that have the slightest influence over these animals had better stand to be counted. It is dragging on for too long.

aguiyi:
mugu, that guy is self made and so can you.

the govt of America did not make bill gates or mark of facebook, they used the conducive environment created by the govt to make themselves rich.

same thing dangote and innoson is doing, get a life and stop expecting the govt to serve you tea on bed

Good reply any day, any time under any government. Nigeria is the way it is because the slothful are in the majority.

Janetozi:
don't love o, loneliness will be ur companion during this ur youthful and old age.

Hmmm. Is that a threat. Na waoh.

What these pastors and other church leaders should do at a time like this when their congregations and the public ask questions on politics and governance is to take them through scripture and teach them what should drive their choices and the implications of such then leave it to the Spirit of God who 'searches the heart' and 'knows the minds' of these candidates to influence their votes.

By openly taking sides with one party candidate or the other they are not only misleading their congregation by sidelining God's influence (because God alone should make the most important decisions in a man's life), but also proving that they are afterall not really leading men to God by building their faiths, but seeking to influence their minds for their personal profit. I'm afraid that is idolatory.

Men of God should steer clear of politics. Of all people they should know that between Buhari and Jonathan or any other candidate they and no other man can read the minds of these people and know for sure that one outcome will be better than the other. What the vast majority of even well meaning Nigerians do by voting is taking a risk, speculating, gambling. It may work. It may not. Only God knows what will work. That is why they should stay out of God's way.

nike4love:
PA adeboye shouldn't have react over what a parrot said

I wouldn't use such colourful language but to react to something he reads over the pages of the newspaper by that fellow at a heated time like this when anything and everything is said very much drags him into the whole thing a bit. To remain neutral is to distance oneself from issues especially in the public space. The institution of the church is bigger than anyone of these actors and no one must be seen to be 'representing it' for or against matters like Nigerian politics which is far smaller.

Those who compare the Nigerian situation to the American, British and even Chadian scenarios should get out of ignorance and wise up.

When you go to war by 'choice' you control many things - when to go in, when to quit, how much you spend and the casualties you are willing to bear, so information or propaganda doesn't work against you. Such has been the western coalition wars in Iraq and Afghan. Chad is in it by choice. They were invited.

If on the other hand war is thrust upon you by a viscious adversary the last thing you need to do in the heat of battle is to psyche up your enemy. Wait until the war is over then you will get it at the memorial to your heart's content.

This is a viscious war. There have been many dead, wounded, missing, deserted. Records are hard. No one deserts a conflict of choice.

pendy79:
can someone see truth and proper information dissemination from the Chadian Military. the Nigerian Military spokesperson Olukolade will even deny its own Men like the case of the AirForce pilot that was killed so as to keep passing on false and misleading information to the citizenry.

The UK and US Army gives number of casualties on the front daily immediately the family of the fallen soldier is informed. No single Nigerian not even journalists know the total number of Nigerian soldiers killed in Battle not even some families know the fate of their sons and brothers up till now.

The media blackout and denial by the DHQ is not helpful and is counter productive.

Those that need to know know about the running body count. You don't need to know so you don't.

buskie13:
joining the NA right now is like suicide.... may God help and purge out all corrupt officers from the military so as for Nigeria to defeat this dreadful islamic sect.....RIP great man....ur life is worth more than the green and white flag that would be placed on ur casket...but still
...you led a true life...may u find peace wherever you are....Shalom

What is this nonsense post. If you have no respect for the flag at least have respect for those who lay down their lives because of it. None of them is fighting and dying for himself but represent our collective aspirations. If you have never served this country as a patriot or put yourself in harm's way for the liberty of others I suggest you shut up and learn from those that do because you are no better or wiser.

If that number of insurgents are encircled you do nothing but keep the noose tight day and night. In 72 hrs they will start dropping like flies from thirst under that scorching sun. In two weeks they will begin to eat one another, then you attack.

Nicur:
Chai!!!! Thumps up to the military

Hmmm, good one but please adjust your flak jacket. It is not protecting all of the most vital area.

ROSSIKE:
Hahahaha....now I've heard it all. Power shortage prevents you from making toothpicks? Clown. Sorry, it is your laziness and dependency syndrome to blame. INNOSON is building trucks, cars and buses in the same environment.

Don't mind these silly people. I have often heard this rubbish and I wonder if there are ANY factories in Nigeria at all.

Even if it is a generator economy are there no other factors of production to give a competitive advantage. Is electricity the only cost of production. I have looked to buy many, many made in Nigeria items (because I feel they will be customised) even at higher costs but alas no one is even trying to make them.

Same they said with telecoms, 'oh just provide phones for all Nigerians and watch our economy out of poverty'. The rest is history. Is it not the same Nigerians who don't pay their power bills and complain bitterly about the high cost of the little electricity they get (even though it is cheaper than fuelling generators) that will be wanting more. Abeg. Who believes that ish. They are just lazy, buck-passing, irresponsible reprobates.

ROSSIKE:
If that is true, it is because people like you are too lazy and stup.id to make these things yourselves. It's not the govt's job to make you sponge and toothbrush. Go online and learn to make these simple things and sell! Dullards. What did you attend school for if you cannot create anything? Keep waiting for govt to build you toothpick factory. Umu onukwu.

Thank you. As if it is the governments of those countries that make them. Nigerians will make or break whoever forms government come May 29th. No government will enjoy absolute success with these lazy lot.

SomebodyLovesMe:
When will the black man stop this senseless violence?

Not only the black man. Have you watched 'Gangs of Newyork'. Its an evolving process. In say a hundred years and perhaps 10, 12 Presidents later we will be like the Brits or Aussies or the Dutch. Certainly not in my life time. So it is my duty to preach peace and avoid the slaughter.

The major undoing of the church, this church and this minister is the world. 'Be ye seperate' is a serious biblical advice. There is no way to handle pigs without people knowing you did. The best way to handle money is to give it ALL away. I know it makes sense to invest but the question is how much. 9 billion will earn you north of 50million per month for life in the most ridiculous of investments. Is that not much more than enough for life and living. Afterall what is faith if not a spiritual state of constant dependency on God's goodwill. And He says, 'I will never leave you.'

bushdoc9919:
She probably took permission.....which is why the time is known

And who gives permission to a 13 year old girl to leave the house unaccompanied at 7pm in Agege, Lagos, Nigeria, 2014. Are there not enough abduction for slavery/rituals stories flying around to elevate one's thinking.

VickyRotex:
Rotfl... Not common with girls na . Some guys own worse pass soakaway

Aha. Just a hand full of posts and you've gone sexist so let me give you some facts. I work mainly outdoors. I am a field person so sweat comes naturally with the job moreso as we slowly transit into the rainy season. Its a man's profession so I encounter lots of 'sweaty men'. Incidentally the only two cases of body odour I have encountered this year has been from women. One in a steamy waiting lounge and it was real bad. The other (quite surprising) was in a cool comfort of a banking hall at 8 opening morning and boy did her braids stink like NNPC's accounts.

When you factor in the reasons for both sexes to stink in their daily activities I think it balances out. Women because of the need to look good, the layering is often a problem when it ages and breaks down and their natural cycles viz the natural hyper-activity of the average man.

andyanders:
The guy is not man enough to understand that some ladies departure from a relationship could turn to be a blessing is disguise.

The guy got it wrong because he also has destroyed his own life.Parents should learn to caution their greed for love of money to their children's detriment. Most parents love to see a made man come for their daughter rather than to look at the quality of the young man and his future.

The woman has ended up destroying so many lives as a result of her greed for money. Most parents do this.

Haba my guy. They courted (she waited) eight solid years. That is no excuse for leaving him but that should stir compassion in someone's heart towards her. Please think like a woman in this one case.

Kill Bill Vol. 4.

Very, very bad. But the guy should give full credits to Quentin Tarantino.

....bang, bang....my baby shot me down....

RIP to the couple and their entourage. El Paso coming to Nigeria. Where has our morals gone.

Oh dearie me. Why must the good always go first. Another light goes out in the better parts of this country. Now who will fill those big shoes, take an interest in the uninteresting and serve selflessly....alas we are all looking for what we will get and who will give to us....RIP Sir and fortitude to his family and friends.

He was a great man.

ayobase:
I can't say much about Ogun State. But I wanna believe you are under IBEDC.

Nigerians are the cause my brother.
A case of paying Peter via robbing Paul.
I must balance the account by robbing some other customers after helping Mr. A to reduce a bill of 60K to 6K.

I might need to spread a bill of 54K on other customers to balance up.
It is that simple and simple.

We need to stand up against corruption.
Corruption is not only about stealing, but not doing what is right.

Thank you. And not waiting for an elected government official to make them do the right thing and pay their bills. The average Nigerian will not work hard and deal honestly to enjoy the good things of life but check out threads everyday. They want change in government simply because they love buck passing, burying their heads in the sand, not knowing that it is they, the people who make government succeed or fail.

I've said it countless times. If people won't pay their bills stable electricity under free market will remain an illusion. Investors are not Santa Claus. They will have their money back or you can return to socialism and certain national economic doom.

KingEbukasBlog:
king ebuka is here
ok na

when you eat so much , u feel some discomfort, telling u to stop,
when u walk or run for long , your legs get weary , telling you to stop.
when you are ironing , and the iron gets too hot , the thermostat automatically turns the iron off , at least for a while .

My point is how long will all these continue ? Its reached its peak . Every celeb is posing nude on magazines . Women wear rags , forming sexy . Twitter doesn't condone nudity anymore , there are free the nipple protests going on so that Facebook and Instagram will bow to nudity .

War , protests , killings everywhere . The violence is too much . Isn't that a sign?

For happens in the next 30 years ? Women will wear pants covering their pps at this rate . Every mag will be a play boy mag . Cartoons may no longer be for kids . P'orn's age limit might be +10 . Kids will have to mature before they'll be able to use social networks . Celebs will appear topless or wear strings as clothing in red capet events. Music will be an erotic melody . Rebels could take over nations and borders. Condoms will be free. Pregnant women at 12. Virgin age limit ,12. I can go on .


But this will not be so , because Christ will come to take the saints , then later, after seven years , the new heaven and earth will come and peace , godliness will reign for ever . I might sound foolish to you ...

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And I will tell you that the number of people that die in conflict, wars, famine, natural disasters, murder, accidents etc is constantly declining, globally. There are less poor people today than ever before. These are 'facts'. Is the world getting better. Is it the truth??. No.

I mean, like someone said earlier. Ghengis Khan personally accounted for the death of what is relatively equivalent to the population of Africa today, yes one man.

Between Stalin and Hitler 40 to 50 million mainly Europeans died. Stalin killed 20 million personally.

Can this happen today, never. You can't kill 1 million before someone takes you out.

So, is the world a better place. Fact - yes. Truth - no.

Ebola has killed about 5,000 and there is panic everywhere. The black death (bubonic plague) killed a third (1 out of 3) of every European living in the middle ages equivalent to perhaps 150 million people today. What can we say.

It is a complex notion and the argument appears split between those who say it has never been this bad before (a sign the end is in sight) and those who say its just like the theory of relativity, just the time and space one occupies creates the 'impression of regression' but the bigger picture remains constant - that is, 'there is nothing new under the sun.

I think both sides are fundamentally right. The bible says, 'as long as the earth remains' meaning it has an end. Even science agrees to that. The universe will either expand out to oblivion, the earth will be crushed by another planetary body or we will destroy the planet by our everyday acts of stupidity.

Here is where I disagree with the OP. There is nothing listed that is new, some are arguably incorrect and one I find totally ridiculous (depicted as a negativity) which is the 'expansion via diversification' of the church. Because that is exactly God's agenda, how He intends to take the gospel to the entire world. That there are no longer 'missionaries' is an outright lie. I am a 'field person' rather than a 'sit down at home with the kids watching Sponge Bob Square Pants' and I can tell you how many times I encounter missionaries operating in places as far as the Mambilla highs right down to Bakassi and the hinter land forests between. You will be amazed what these people do and go through to spread the gospel to communities even government is unaware of.

The truth is that God has plans to end the world. He puts these plans into motion by prophecy. That is what the Book of Revelations is all about. Christianity is a faith. The just will survive by faith. One thing faith doesn't do, is count time and space. A sign that one is NOT living by faith is living in 'relativity' - seeing things 'change over time'. It is not scriptural. As Christians we are meant to be dead to certain things and alive to Christ in whom there is no beginning and end.

mrrock:
Buhari's regime was a brutal government and nobody (corrupt or non corrupt) had freedom of any sort. A man who unseated a democratically elected government of Shehu Shagari and ruled with maximum tyranny on the disguised slogan of war against indiscipline- WAI.

No, I'm not with you on this one. That he is contesting the third time is a clear enough reminder to him that he cannot possibly be a maxim ruler and that those tyranical genes are simply gone. He will have to negotiate and seek consensus on just about everything and this is where I fear for the over reaching, over confident, excitable electorate. It may not happen, it may not happen fast and it may not happen as expected.

DaBullIT:
So upon the whole , this wasn't propaganda at all, He really wanted to battle corruption and he really did , he even asked citizens to contribute and report sighting of Politicians

I hope the same happens this February when M.Buhari wins the presidential,What i'll love to see is if those MEND and MASSOB aholes will be willing to protect and hide jonathan, and several other Arszewipes who have been terrorizing the nation financially

Well, he can start with those immediately around him and they are aplenty. Anything else will be termed partial, sectional and he will be grounded by the 'system' or more likely turned to a poodle. I am more realistic as to what constitutes 'deliverables' concerning the Buhari experiment. His first experiment in 83 didn't achieve anything but confirm how the average Nigerian loves corruption and will do just about anything to protect his pet sins.

No, I can't see anything fundamentally change in this regard.

Descartes:
"In fact, it is frightening that so many Nigerians of voting age lack the fundamental reasoning ability of a second-grader and are even less-informed about basic facts than a kindergarten."-Etcetera Words on Marble

I am not even bothered about the certificate issue. As far as I am concerned, a strong opposition is a good opposition. My worry is that Nigerians are over leveraging on the potential Buhari candidacy and selling themselves short in the process. There are a lot of issues that go further and deeper than the seat of the Presidency alone can handle and I'm afraid the only likely outcome is unprecedented frustration down the line on such matters.

Politics is not governance just as the building of roads does not equate prosperity. Once power goes to the APC and things donot quite work out as people expect, what next. That is the million dollar question.

Seun:
Some parts of the letter seem politically oriented. However, it names some specific names, which is helpful, but I was hoping for more info.

The whole war is a political plant turned into an unmanagable forest. Issues now involving the ADC to the President. He too is expected to be fighting in Bornu. The problem of Nigeria remains structural. When we get the power equations right, who owns what, who gets what will be sorted out.

I believe the vast majority of men and women of the armed forces remain professional and are willing to see this campaign through to certain victory. The political jobbers amongst them can continue undermining efforts until they are found and rooted out top to bottom.

That the GEJ administration has been the best thing to happen to Nigeria is not in doubt. The purge of the armed forces is on. The pressure to reform is on. They are not as homogenous, not as apolitical, not as patriotic, not as competent and certainly not as professional as we thought. It is up to them to clean up their act or risk the total destruction of that hallowed institution.

President's will come and go, the armed forces will remain. Institutions are bigger than individuals.

When I say the problem of Nigeria is structure some naive folks will say it is roads, bridges and electricity. I just laugh.

JayAyede:
You should know that Lagos state generates it's funds for projects by itself without the FG giving them their entitlement(allocation).
But still, Fashola's performance as Lagos State Gov is excellent.
So you should know that he is not begging the FG cos he has don an excellent job even without it.

N/B
No government can finished all it projects.

But when it comes to the Federal government your postulation will 'change'.