₦airaland Forum

woodcook:
Would it had killed APC if they filled in a young and vibrate candidate?

Yes, that is wishful thinking. In politics you put your best foot forward while dancing to the tune of the electorate.

Madam you know how much CAT Scan dey cost. Na expensive play you dey play so.

moderatorr:
who is Brigadier Alabi?
Asking from France.
If you confront Biafra soldiers you would loose 1000 men in the first hour because confronting Biafra is like the Normandy invasion. Barefoot die hard soldiers would be waiting for you behind a locally made Ogbunigwe. The first shot will clear 700 of your men remaining 300 to deal with. Book haram is still learning to make bombs, they should Google Biafra.
Back to this brigadier, I don't doubt what Obasanjo said about you being on top of a woman and radioing that you are at the war front because there is no how you can tell me you advanced 480 kilometers fighting the trigger of Africa without loosing anyone, story for the Gods.
#myWatchOnPoint on this one

Keep quiet.

tbaba1234:
He does not deny buying the boats, just that they were handed over to the Navy via NIMASA.

This means government gave his renowned militant, millions of dollars to purchase boats on their behalf.

What happens if GEJ leaves and the contracts dry up?

Well he knows where to get more and will surely buy the right stuff.

lastmessenger:
Buhari is at work.that man is desperate for power.

Don't be ridiculous.

Collynzo9:
We should focus on producing capable governors, the Presidency thing does not help anyone from the president's tribe.
The Ijaws were seriously clamouring for resource control before they were bribed with a vice-president and then President position. Are they better off now? No, the man wasn't even allowed to rule in peace. Even without doing much for his people, he was tagged an ethinc President, an Igo man will be tagged a Biafran President if he dares site even a bore hole in the east. There are more important things to bother about than a Presidency that wouldn't help us.
We should be more concerned about holding our governors accountable for now.

Oh I see. This is what I been saying about our democratic journey for years now. Equity and justice is the only corruption killer. They taste, they see it doesn't work, they resent it, they look elsewhere, inwards. Power at the centre becomes no longer attractive so the culture of 'settlement' and 'rent seeking' dies naturally.

This is where I fault the APC ideology which appears to promote the old order, the structural imbalances of the north-west at the head of the buffet line while the west and east scramble for the soggy left-overs and the minorities perpetual dish washers. This will only promote the 'settlement, either or' culture that has grounded this country.

You cannot honestly seek to provide the best tool for the job until you have gone through the entire tool box, the hammer, the cudgel atop the pile notwithstanding.

waternogetemeny:
Trial and error is not good, if u can get it right on first attempt.. I was oppose to the whole APC experiment. Rochas had tried for so long to be Gov and finally APGA presented that opportunity, but the way he decamp to APC was not nice.

I mean wat was the rush, with GEJ in power. If APC had given him the Ticket so he would have contested against GEJ? This is the problem we have as Ndiigbo, we don't hunt in packs.

Politics is not a one man show like business. In politics to succeed u must work as a very large team and hunt in packs of one for all and all for one; not every man for himself.


Rochas might learn this lesson the hard way, if he does not make a convincing case to retain his office based on his performance this last 4 years.

Das right. Democracy is a game of numbers. Rochas thought he could go it alone and now APC is trying to go it alone. Strategic mistakes.

spiceemman:
Charged with MURDER and stealing? When the body has not been recovered? While it's not absolutely certain he's dead? Nigeria! Smh
That said, what a disguting man!

He was charged based on his confession. The police can only hold him for 24hrs and they know murder carries no bail. The police are on their way to the scene but cannot prove within 24hrs. They have to do something. Bail him and in Nigeria he's gone forever. Logical move IMO.

Without an effective rendition system our criminal justice system must depend on criminal 'confessions'. It cannot perfectly mirror that of the west.

missterious:
NOBODY deserves to be raped by one person, not to talk of gang raping. All the people indirectly blaming the girl, remember she's 16. She's going to be emotionally scarred for life. Nobody deserves that just because she had a boyfriend at such an early age.

I see. And the boy is 18 you know. Doesn't know what he is doing too. Young, impressionable couple. Hmm. Excuses and more excuses. Raise your game to meet the challenges of changing times. Stop excuses.

django1:
Kindly tell us why the price of diesel has remained as high as ever? It has been deregulated fully for several years now.

Deregulation comes with production. Production drives down cost. No one will build a refinery to produce diesel alone. That is what government has been saying for years. You cannot deregulate one product and expect a proper response. Like in telecomms. You cannot sell voice and keep data. It doesn't work. When diesel was deregulated it was hoped PMS and other products will follow shortly but Nigerians resisted now we are complaining. For what. Just delayed having private refineries for years to come. Just kicking the can down the road.

yehmi01:
The rate at which you people praise this buhari man self, he will just fix all the problem that have been dir for YEARS just over night.

I keep telling people the major problem of the country is not so much about the people in ASO rock. Nigerian are the number one problem of the country.

We are very myopic in our view of things.

We get people to promise heaven and earth without really counting the cost.

This was the same emotional strategy GEJ played back then saying 'I was not born Rich'

Now Nigerians are the one paying for the poverty and his lack of ability to deliver.

Let's face it. IS BUHARI REALLY BETTER Than GEJ.

If you say yes I will say you are a big liar.

And because of the Nigerian people and centiments APC will never put sensible people like fashola and Adams as president.

But instead we are given two clueless people in PDP and APC to vote for the one whom we think is a little more clueless than the other since both are cluless any ways and have a citizens who will not ask the right questions and analyze the matter from all sizes.

February will come naa.

We we see how many things the so called buhari will do.

A dump person in PDP does not make Him smart in APC vise versal. Period.

Its all politics. That's how democracy works. The fear of losing power viz the determination to attain it is the engine of democratic progress not necessarily the quality of the candidates. In most cases they average out across parties. Right now the two important assets power and reputation are balanced inversely between both parties. The PDP has maximum power and minimum reputation, the APC has minimum power and maximum reputation. If Nigerians decide for a reversal come 2015 the PDP will be relieved because it can rebuild its reputation in opposition while the APC will gradually lose theirs. But power will more than compensate for the inevitable loss of face..

fineworker24:
It is highly unfortunate that we have clones as union leaders. He is telling us that Total has no right to transfer their staffs again. I wonder when transfer has turn out to be sack in NUPENG terms and warped reasoning. Very shameful.

They are in a race for the bottom. Oil prices are falling and will remain low for years to come. Total might as well cash in on this event and lay them all off. Let them return to their villages to farm and do union with grasscutter and catfish.

If the union wants to employ her that's fine but if she is under the employment of a private firm she is obliged to go wherever she is sent. They should just elect another representative. Is she working for the union or Total. These people just ruin themselves when they cannot seperate politics from governance. Rubbish nonsense unions. People have to suffer because of their lust for power. Can the useless man speaking bring in one single dollar of foreign investment. That's how they have ruined every single government enterprise from refineries to steel plants, PHCN to the ports. And he has the guts to announce that after a 'thanksgiving service'. Bloody, lazy, bureaucrat.

kolajoo:
I observed too

What did you observe. That those two are perhaps non christians going by their names.....abi. Even in the church you will find non traditional christian names. Gone are the days when people compulsorily change from Saul to Paul. To some it doesn't really matter. To others it is even an effective evangelical tool in certain places. Moreover in this particular context football is not core church activity but more of social development. Expect to find non christians working and being served in other peripheral programs such as medical, educational, construction and engineering, banking & finance and other commercial based outreaches.

Are we not the ones who will accuse churches of discrimiation if the general public doesn't have access to some of these programs. Debate.

Somewhere in Jonathan's mind I'm sure he is hoping the Supreme Court will void his eligibility so he can get out of this misfiring contraption called the Nigerian state and leave the mess for the 'messiahs' to wade through.

Ayoolajumoke:
I think that ain't bad.

Can be. Music is good as a creative stimulant but a terrible cognitive repressant.

lastmessenger:
Have you ever seen Jesus telling you to give or is not the pastor that tell you that Jesus said so. When did Jesus say you must guess first fruit every January.
If na like then you can give to me na. Me too need to buy my own jet. Bros make I send my account number.

I have answered this question repeatedly in many ways. You don't have to give. Just leave others who love God and what He is doing alone.

From my balcony I can see another procession of trucks with loud speakers for yet another church program this December and I'm so glad. Not my church (what is 'my' church) but someone, some people paid for the trucks, the generators, the speakers, the music, the handbills and flyers so that no matter what the event is all about, at the end of each session, of each day, an altar (alter) call will be made and someone will get a shot at knowing Jesus. Poster, let the man keep his money. Those of you who give have saved numerous souls from death that you know not of but will be credited to you on the day of reckoning.

stagger:
The fact is that envy is what drives most of these rantings you see. Left to a natural man, they would prefer to see churches operating from thatch houses and always begging for help from outsiders. A normal average Nigerian cannot be happy when something good happens in the life of someone they know. Make dem go siddon. Those of us who decided to do what God expects us to do have been blessed and have never had cause to regret. Since 2006, I have never had a dry January. NEVER. I have more than 5 streams of income and God has just expanded it.

Let the frustrated people like the OP keep harassing themselves about other people's money instead of his own.

God bless you. May your streams become rivers of abundance so that you will be a living witness of what God is doing, gradually seperating the wheat from the chaff. He is faithful.

lastmessenger:
Yet those who fleece the children of God use thier Brian in doing so.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of your faith. Of your faith. My pastor is not the author and finisher of my faith. I donot give because my pastor says so. I give because Jesus says so. So I can never be offended. By faith Abel gave a better offering than Cain....read the rest. Who was there with both of them, no one. So it means you cannot even give to God without any human involvement. Where is your faith mister.

doug:
just because you dont want to pay tithe and first fuits, including other contributions in church, you came here to poison peoples mind to become like you. what a shame. pay your tithe. dont be as wise and ananias and his wife..........they probably thought they were smart like you. its never a must to pay anything in church but dont recruit people to your devilish ideas.

They are always looking into other peoples' wallets raving and ranting at what they give in church. No one is ever forced to give. If they donot want to why seek to prevent others. What is the agenda. They are terrified at the explosive expansion of the church this end times and donot want to be left alone to face the music. Bad news. You will be left alone. By the time you realise it those you think are your fellow atheists will have accepted Jesus and left you alone. Don't under-estimate what God can do. Continue hardening your hearts.

lastmessenger:
If you keep your brain at home when going to church then expect to be fleeced.
Is time Christians start using their brains

You cannot love God with your 'brains'. Just forget it. You cannot be a believer. 'With the heart a man believes unto righteousness.....with the mouth is confession made unto salvation' (para). If God came to earth with a calculator and estimated the probability of saving man, Jesus will not have died on the cross, its that simlple.

frosbel:
So how come atheists , Muslims and non-religious Christians like me and countless others are truly blessed and yet we do not give a dime in tithes or first fruits ?

Use you brain.

You don't give for the sole purpose of being blessed. You give first because you love. The blessings come later. Anyone can have the trappings of blessings. Jesus spoke of the rich man who went away sad because he like most of you couldn't give. There was no account that Jesus or the Father was angry at him and did anything untowards. Christianity is a faith. If the rain fell on only believers, people will seek God just because of rain, not because they love Him.

You too will not like a relationship where the party is in it because of what they an get alone. You will want to be loved, trusted and respected for who you are and you will test this and reward this at your own time. Christianity remains a Faith. Logic cannot work. You just cannot understand us.

dabriggs:
It is a shame. It really is. Like I said, No pastor born of the union between a man and woman can tell me otherwise about tithes and offerings.

If you think the reason to give is because you want a miracle or because you want God to bless you, please pay. All the tithes and offering we pay should be enough to make God intervene in our poverty and penury we live in. As a matter of fact it would seem that the more the churches we have in Nigeria, the poorer the people are becoming and the worse the country is becoming. Also the more people commit evil IN THE NAME OF GOD.

Even if the bible clearly stated that people should not pay tithes, Nigerians in particular and Humans in general will still pay to someone. Because I see no where the early Christians or Christ and his follower put on white garments, went about barefooted, bowed to Mary in obeisance or in honor of her, prayed through any saint, demand for tithes, or went about disturbing the neighborhood.

LIKE I SAID, NO PASTOR, NON ALIVE NOW AND NON TO COME IN FUTURE will do all this abracadabra to me. You wont touch me and I fall and you wont see my tithe or first fruit. It is a handsome sum, but it is not meant for you! Those that are in real need will get their needs met as best as I can. You can never sow fear in me about canker worms, because I wonder why the canker worms do not attack Bill Gates and Dangote and the majority of people in Europe, America or Asia who do not believe. As a mater of fact they have a better standard of living than practically every Nigerian. You cannot sow fear about my Uncle being a wizard or my Aunt being a witch or that evil arrows are flying around me. You cannot tell me to bring a white handkerchief to church or buy a special oil. You cannot tell me that I need to pray against any flying arrows from my colleague at work, because another pastor will tell me that what he sees is a python coming to swallow me, while yet another will say it is an ancestral alter or shrine. And then I ask are all these men getting all these varying messages from the same GOD?! Really? So na only me waka come wey God dey give una conflicting messages?

Religion, cults, sects and other such groups have come to stay. They will forever be part of human existence. But as long as you do not try to shove your fantasy down my throat, then I have no problem with you at all. After all we celebrate Xmas even when we know Christ was not born on the 25th of December. So there are many more things we do just because it is generally acceptable to do so regardless of whether it is right or wrong.

Well Christianity is a Faith and flies in the face of worldly logic. That is why God says we are not of the world. Our eyes are firmly set on Jesus who similarly faced many, many contradictions. When people pay certain offerings they are: Not looking at man, but are looking at God. They are principled after the fact that offerings are most times 'burnt', that is destroyed, that is consumed without recourse, that is unaccountable. Finally, that if a sacrificial offering is not 'painful', and depriving, then its of little value irrespective of the quantity. And much more.

These things my friend will be impossible for a man of little faith to grasp thoughtless of an unbeliever. I dare to tell you that as the world gets harder and priests become greedy, our faith in the Word should grow stronger and we give even more to pull further away from the crowd. That is faith.

Firstly poster, if you love you will give. The same way you try to impress your girlfriend, your spouse, your parents is the same way you should try and impress the God you claim you love. 'For God so loved the world that He gave....' In fact, you can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

Secondly, you may ask but God is not in need. True. He is the Author and Creator of all so why are we asked to give. Because God wants us to be partakers of His nature which is love thereby expunging from our system the worldly way of lust and greed. It is a platform of opportunity. It is a theatre of proof that one has escaped the power of satan that desires us to accumulate more and more. All great men of wealth and power in scriptures were tested. Some passed, some didn't.

Thirdly, Cain brought pickings of his huntings and Abel, produce of cultivation because those were the jobs available then. That was the currency of exchange. In the New Testament Peter offered his boat to Jesus as an offering. He was a fisherman. Jesus watched as the poor widow threw coins into collection. She was able to monetise her offerings. No one stops you from bringing whatever you wish unto the Lord but in these days of a unitary system of exchange in commerce and enterprise the easiest (for you the giver and the receiver) way to offer value will be through money. As in tithes it is quantifiable and best represents the produce of whatever effort God has enabled you make at work.

Even if you were a farmer today I doubt if you will take kindly to your boss paying you in catfish, eggs or ugwu leaves.

kossyablaze:
If you participated in Shiloh, or the Redeemed program and you
are still supporting GMB as the right person to rule this country, I
am beginning to doubt your Christianity....Obviously God didn't
speak to you...

God is not interested in your politics. He has laid out principles together with consequences. He does not discriminate. God has an agenda and can actualize it through anyone of any faith. Remember Jesus died when the Romans, not the Jews were in-charge in Jerusalem.

Adeoba10:
Bro, just wait... In d next few days now u will be hearing diff. prophecy from diff pastors abt 2015.... U can browse for d year 2014 hear on nairaland....

I know. That a prominent person will die, that riots will breakout in Burma...to what end. It is not God's Word. It doesn't promote His agenda. It is not His Will so how can it be from Him.

Fabdedon:
No but we need to know if dere is any thing bad thats going to happen so as to pray/work againts it..thats the importance of Prophesy!!

I often hear this in Christian circles and I view the discordant principles with respect to the old and new testaments. In the old testament God did a lot of 'offensive' work while in the new testament because of Jesus God saves the 'individual'.

Believe me God doesn't know and doesn't care how many planes satan intends to crash but He provides comprehensive cover for 'whosoever' wishes as contained in prophesies.

To be honest the greater your faith in His Word the less you have to worry about what Satan is doing. That is God's mentality.

Our prayers as maturing Christians should be, let thy will be done as opposed to prayers of fear at potential satanic attacks.

Nihilist:
What is in heaven that Oyedepo is not already enjoying here on earth?

'I have come (Jesus) that they may have life and life abundantly'. 'Brethren I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper...even as your soul does'. 'And he died at a ripe old age surrounded by His children'.....and still going to heaven. My friends, life is a choice. Make the good one.

Poznan:
Prophecy: Telling the future in advance. So what is prophetic about this detail? Whose future? Read your bible and see examples of prophecies. E.g. The Messiah will be born in Bethlehem Ephratah. That is a prophesy. These are akin to 'A club will win the world cup. Someone will get a job next year, etc'

I repeat again, simplified. Prophesies are made by the ability and will of the speaker while in predictions the speaker is observing events he has no control off.

When Jesus was asked when He will return He said He did not know. He could not 'predict' it because the events leading up to it are not in His control but to God, He has prophesied that Jesus will return because He has the power to and has set the events of the end time in motion.

As humans alone we can only predict, we cannot prophesy. We have little power to influence events. Anyone claiming to foretell events is only doing so through mediums that have the powers to influence events. So if I tell you a plane will crash I have the ability and will to crash that plane.

The bible is an expository of the will and power of God.

joseph1832:
How come all this prophetic declaration are always abstracts. Why can't these men of God mention names... Instead of so rigorously dealing in abstracts.

Your name or mine is not in the bible. The New Testament Living Faith speaks of 'whosoever'. Anyone and everyone is welcome.

adexsimply:
Can you distinguish between both words?

Okay, let me try. The only one who knows what is going to happen is whom has the power and intent to make it happen. Whatever God has the power and intent to do He makes it known. God doesn't have the power and intent to kill, steal and destroy so He cannot predict it, He cannot do it.

God cannot predict what you will do because you have a will. He can only seek to influence you positively. Similarly He cannot predict what Satan will do so He creates a way out for us.

What God has done right from the beginning is to create His Will by His Word irrespective of any unpredictable situation. He has an agenda and is less concerned what the devil is doing. So He sends His agenda to us out of love in the form of prophesies. We can tap into them to make His agenda real or we can do as we or Satan wills with 'predictable' consequences.

Does this help.