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How is Queen Worlu from ED STATE? |
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krattoss:many questions |
usmantoafiq:This reply is epic.. But how much beating is slight beating? |
usmantoafiq:Terrorist spotted |
Onegai:Very good. I couldn't agree with you more |
wirinet:I normally don't respond to posts like this. The relationship you tried to paint in your last point doesn't apply. It doesn't even relate You have misconstrued the essential point in this debate, we are not arguing what should be given BUT if there should be giving at all and how much. The stuff you listed up there can all be monetized which would have been inappropriate and cumbersome in OT times considering that the Hebrew society was agrarian and the offering were often intended to feed the Levites and as burnt offering (because God enjoyed it) Exodus 25:1-9 25:1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 25:2 “Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me; from every person whose heart makes him willing you are to receive my offering. 25:3 This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, bronze, 25:4 blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goat’s hair, 25:5 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood, 25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for fragrant incense, 25:7 onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece. 25:8 Let them make for me a sanctuary, that I may live among them. 25:9 According to all that I am showing you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings—you must make it exactly so. |
donifez:Just give with the mind that you're are giving God. Then forget about it. God will remind you. |
thozin:1. God is not a ghost. He is alive. 2. Nobody can rob him - Not because he cannot be seen, but because he can take whatever he wants. He bestows good things on all men whether good or bad. The difference is that some thank him and show appreciation and others don't. I quoted some verses above 3. Do you pay tax? From your moniker and posts you are probably of eastern extraction and may own a business or a salaried person. Have you ever thought of asking how the govt appropriates your tax? or why your roads are bad,? Have you ever thought of protesting the transaction stamp duty? or removing VAT from essential utilities? But you dey throw mouth give God for offering and dey call am ghost! My men fear God ooo. Name Jesus die for us, na God blast the Egyptians and Assyrians... |
donifez:That's true because even the Bible talks about giving willingly and not grudgingly. All the problems arise from lack of understanding because after being forced to give, they give with grudge and doubt but buoyed on by the assurance of the pastor that God will pay back, therefore likening Him to a money doubler, and because of this they would never get the reward for giving. But I don't think the amount donated would be made public. There is no sense in that |
wirinet:Giving to God involves tithes, offering and giving to the poor. Like you said, it rains on everyone. When the Tower of Siloam fell killing hundreds of people inside, Jesus said that they died not because they were the worst people in the land but it was just an accident.. just simple chance. As for your second point, it is possible to give God. [b] On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper , that there be no collections when I come. 1 Cor 16.2 (see also Lev 14.30)[\b] [b] Honor the LORD with your possessions, and with the firstfruits of all your increase Prov 3.9 [\b] [b] So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Cor 9.7 [\b] [b] Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. Lk 6.38 [\b] [b]He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, And He will pay back what he has given. Prov 19.17 [\b] I could go on and even further, but that's not the main issue now. Christians give because they are only following the bible and it works for us. moreover, giving is a universal law |
I'm anxious to hear the 2019 campaign promises. |
I don't understand most comments above mine at all... I am a Nigerian, I earn salary, I pay tax outside and when I put in naija account, naija govt removes theirs too. is that fair? I go to church, I give offering and tithe because I feel God is blessing me. I give with the intention that I'm giving to God, so what is my business if the pastor diverts or steals it? he hasn't robbed me, he has robbed God. God will still bless me because he sees my heart that I've given him something because I wanted to , and not because I want people to know I have small cash like that. If anyone genuinely feels bad about giving too much in church, that means he doesn't believe in God. or he is giving the pastor. So we should stop acting childish and talking about increasing taxation, because the tax and VAT collected is being wasted away on paying senators and on meaningless trips with huge personal detail. |
The most exciting section is actually the trending section |
emekakelvin:The DSS picked him up a few hours ago.. By tomorrow morning he would have spilled all there is to know |
...and that is the story of how the Nigerian govt risks and wastes the lives of southern and middle belt Soldiers fighting their ideological war in the North east, while the northern soldiers are relaxing in Tradoc and in southern barracks. When militants and Southerner kill one northern soldier the community is invaded and reprisals or genocide carried out. but southern soldiers die weekly. and These northern soldiers who are more suited for NE since there is no religious, language or cultural barrier. Instead they are escorts to companies, or studying hypothetical wars in Logistics, or other schools or rotting away in one random barracks where they terrorize civilian population during furloughs and even from their sentry post or wasting away in depot while waiting for deployment signal from Abj. while southerners are rapidly and constantly sent up there to die without assurance of a better and fairer country. All animals are equal but some are more equal than others. Tonight I'm angry. Happy birthday edobor. God bless Nigeria (somehow..) |
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I'm no computer geek but i was stunned when i stumbled on this page.. It's like visiting a parallel universe. What's the site all about? seun http://www.astronomyads.com |
orobs93:If you are waiting for NLC and TUC to determine what happens to you... |
rita25:Not correct.. There is one royal family! Eweka, Akenzua, Adolor etc are all the same family. The Esama isn't from the royal family |
Don't flush it. Recycle it instead! |
ANINI lay flat on his back on a stretcher, his trunk covered
with a white hospital cloth soaked all through with blood. He
was lifeless and his left leg with the shattered ankle dangled
pitiably. His sorry condition aptly reflected the mighty fall he
had taken from the hallow pedestal from which he directed
his gang’s bloody assaults on the police and the public.
The operation was very vital as ANINI was wanted alive to
unravel his mysterious past. “I am doing everything possible
to have the police get ANINI alive because I think he has
something to tell the public,” Governor once said. What the
Governor meant was that the merciless criminal should be
made to tell all he knew about the involvement of some
policemen and their officers with the underworld men.
Osayande reiterated Inienger’s concern when he said: “I
wanted to find him alive.” He was a bit concerned that ANINI
might not survive his injuries.
In the same military hospital, 22years old OSUNBOR, ANINI'S
henchman, was still recuperating from the wounds he
sustained from his clash with the policemen some four weeks
before. Only two room separated his own from that of his
former crime boss. 24hours after he was caught, ANINI had
virtually become a cripple strapped permanently to a hospital
bird in unfamiliar surroundings. There he spoke publicly for
the first time with Osayande, the police boss.
Osayande: have they given you food yet?
ANINI: Yes.
Osayande: when are we going to talk now, today?
ANINI: okay, but I would want to get well before I talk. I will
talk.
Osayande: what else do you need?
ANINI: minerals (soft drinks) and cigarette.
Osayande: I have to find out from doctor whether you can
smoke.
ANINI: eh! He allowed it. I asked him here and he said I am
free to smoke, but no money to buy it.
Osayande: do you know me?
ANINI: yes. I do but without you, I don’t think i can make a
statement to anybody
Osayande: Without me? Oh, you want me to be here. Okay, I
will come. When do we come? MONDAY (OSUNBOR) is here,
he was lying against you. You don’t know that.
ANINI: Was he saying I am the one who killed the policemen?
Osayande: Yes.
ANINI: He is the one who killed them. Has he not confessed
to you that he is the one who killed them?
Osayénde: kills policemen?
ANINI: Yes
Osayande: Did l say you are very humane, that you don’t kill
policemen?
ANINI: I have not killed a policeman before, I have not killed
anybody. I only threaten people. If you like to give me, if you
don’t like, okay. But once it is Monday or any other person,
they are ready to shoot. But for me, I don’t shoot any person.
Eh pa, tell them to buy cigarette for me now?
Osayande kept his promise to give him anything, and ordered
Uanreroro, the man who reduced the former armed robbery
king to whimpering helplessness, to go and arrange for two
packets of Benson and Hedges and two bottles of soft drinks
to be brought to Anini. Before then, he gave him eight sticks
from his own packet. |
The police assault, carried out by a 10-man team from the
mobile unit and led by Chief Superintendent KAYODE
UANRERORO, was precise to the finest details. At about 1pm,
an informant got wind of ANINI'S presence at a house No. 26
Oyemwonsa Street, opposite Iguodala primary school on
Murtala Muhammed Way, Benin City. He went to the police
command to relate the news.
The pblice reaction was methodical. They wanted to be sure
of the information. Misinformation about Anini had led them
astray before, earning them public ridicule.
Osayande, who had been in charge of the state police
command since October 1 when his predecessor, Casmir
Akagbosu, was fatally wounded by ANINI'S hoodlums,
dispatched the informant and sent a woman (disguised as a
daughter of the soil) to confirm the information. Faith seemed
to have played tricks on ANINI; he was still there with his
bevy of delectable girls.
As soon as the confirmation was in, the police swung into
action. UANRERORO, whom Osayande described as “brave
and energetic”, led his crack 10-man team to the area at 2pm
and surrounded the house, a nondescript affair with a coat of
faded yellow paint. UANRERORO knocked on the door of the
room and ANINI himself, who had only his underpants on,
opened it. “where is ANINI?’’ the police officer demanded....
Confronted by the real LAW, ANINI... “The LAW” knew
instantly that he was in serious trouble especially given his
near utter state of UnCloth and the cut-off of the only route of
escape by UANRERORO.... His “VANISHING” power and the
GODS of the land must have failed him, but his brain was not
“dead” yet.
ANINI tried to outwit UANRERORO.... He told him that ANINI
“is under the bed in the inner room,” and attempted at the
same time to force his way past UANRERORO. He shoved and
head-butted UANRERORO but the police offlcer, who knew his
life was on the line, would not budge.... UANRERORO reached
for his gun, stepped hard on ANINI'S right toes and shot at
his left ankle. The Bendel king of the underworld staggered
forward..
Assisted by some of his men who had moved into the room,
UANRERORO grabbed him and placed him in a sitting
position. And then, ANINI was given a bitter, painful taste of
his own medicine. UANRERORO pumped more bullets into the
damaged ankle, almost severing it from the leg. This was
done to ensure that he was completely incapacitated.
The shock and concentrated impact of the bullets burying
themselves in the ankle triggered an involuntary movement in
ANINI'S body and he jerked forward and rolled on the floor,
already red with his blood. He was asked if he was ANINI...
His anguished reply was: “My brother, I won’t tell you lie, I’m
ANINI,” He was then carried out, bundled into police land
rover and driven to the state police command headquarters,
off Sapele Road, where Osayande and his colleagues, Edward
Irabor and Donald Ugbuaja (both police commissioners), were
waiting.
But something happened during the me lee to catch ANINI....
All the girls who were with him escaped as the police,
anxious not to let such a fine opportunity slip away,
concentrated on their major prey. The euphoria engendered
by the successful operation overshadowed the only major
mistake UANERORO and his men committed.
As soon as he arrived at the police headquarters, ANIN was
thoroughly questioned about his real identity by the three
Commissioners led by Osayande.... Irabor was the first to ask
if he was ANINI. His poor command of English, made worse
by severe pains tearing through his body, made his reply
incomprehensible. Irabar resorted to Bini dialect and asked
him again. ANINI said he was the one, and talked some
more. He said that it was MONDAY OSUNBOR, the deputy
leader of his gang arrested four weeks earlier who shot
Akagbosu.
Meanwhile, his blood was oozing out uncontrollably and he
pleaded with the police chiefs to take him to the hospital.
They later obliged him, and he was taken to the Military Base
hospital on Airport road at about 3:15 pm followed by an
escort of heavily armed policemen. Before he was wheeled to
the theatre for an emergency operation to stop the blood flow,
he was presented to pressmen who had converged at the
police headquarters immediately after the news of his arrest
broke out. |
ANINI bowed to the ROYAL intervention... In another letter to
the bank which it received on September 24, AnINI said: “I am
no longer interested in your N10,000 as I earlier wrote you. I
am doing this to respect the OBA of Benin, following his
appeal.” He copied the letter to the commissioner of police,
the “- + group,” + Group,” the Ugbowo Unit,” Ikpoba Hill
Unit,”“Sakponba Unit, etc.” And ANINI became the most
notorious bandit in the history of Nigeria, for in August, at the
Supreme Ruling Council’s meeting, the President, Ibrahim
Babangida, had publicly asked the Inspector General of Police,
Etim lnyang: “My Friend, Where is ANINI?”
And the police moved. Plain clothes police officers combed
and mingled with the rural population of Oroghbo and
Evbueisi, ANINI'S paternal and maternal home and villages
respectively. The intention was to pick him if he made the
mistake of going to see his people. Though this did not yield
the required results, the police continued to mount vigil in his
home front believing, perhaps, that such home coming was a
needed psychological prop for a man under intense pressure.
But right in Benin, the police instruments of counter-attack
appeared quite enormous. They declared a night curfew,
stretching from 10pm till dawn, and as an incentive,
announced a N 10,000 reward for anyone who could give
information leading to the arrest of ANINI. The force not
having a known picture of ANINI also printed wall bills
(poster) declaring ANINI wanted....
ANINI'S reply was a show of contempt..... He derided the
police offer by making one of his own. He boast fully
promised that he would give N30, 000 to whoever could get
him arrested. But the police poster could hardly be seen
anywhere in Benin because "ANINI is too hot to handle.” -
At the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA Benin, where some
were pasted, ANINI reportedly visited the gate men and
threatened to annihilate them if he ever saw the poster again.
The Poster vanished within an hour. There were no private
homes in Benin that would readily allow the poster to be
placed on their walls. Even in public buildings, they were rare,
a fact which led to hundreds of the poster lying unused on the
floors of police headquarters.
What ANINI was doing, in effect, was to counter the police
offensive with a reign of terror that had further swelled the
balloon of myths around him. His various daring attack have
overawed the city’s population. In the resultant reign of fear,
his powers were imagined to be more than human. This
discouraged those who knew about his whereabouts from
squealing on him. ANINI seemed to bask in the infamy that a
mention of his name and, more seriously his presence, gave
rise to in the city. He operated with a panache that befitted his
lawlessness. For instance, he went about town in the uniform
of a police superintendent and in a show of how much the
symbols of state can be commandeered to practicalize his
criminal impulses, ANINI in early September, seized at gun
point a Bendel State government car with a BDSG registration
and heeded for the Wire Road petrol station. He shot the
station manager in the thigh and made away with a large
sum of money which exact amount the Attendants said they
did not know. Like Robin hood, ANINI threw the money into
the air for the passers-by. Most of the time, he continued to
throw money to the people, saying, I rob for the masses.”
The police and Governor John Inieger of Bendel State,
however, continued to say that ANINI'S days were already
numbered. But resident apparently thinking that there was
nothing police could do about ANINI, simply made jokes of the
situation.
A local journalist once said he had an appointment with the
governor, and his friend asked: ‘Which of them? Inienger or
ANINI?”..... At the Benin police officer’s mess a senior police
officer shouted the name of a colleague. “Who is that?” Asked
the second officer, ANINI of course,” came the reply. “Then, of
course, I’m Ovbigbo, the- law,” shot back the colleague. A
third officer shouted in turn:”Hands up. The two of you are
under arrest!”
While the jokes were on, ANINI continued to conduct himself
as a politician storming a constituency for a desperate vote.
Though not quite literate, he had been bombarding newspaper
houses and the state police with letters expressing his
concern over social issues....
Just before Akagbosu was shot, he shot a sergeant in the leg
and gave him a letter to deliver to his boss in which he
complained about police brutality against students; the
closure of Ife University and Kaduna Polytechnic when
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, the cause of the crisis, was
reopened; and about pen robbers who were left free while
armed robbers were being shot.....
ANINI'S letter of September 11 to the editor of the Nigerian
Observer, Benin was like an election manifesto. He said “Tell
our President, we like him but we are not happy here in
BendeI. The payment for everything is too much. That is why
I now divide any money I get to the people. Ask them.’’
He gave six conditions that must be met “for peace to return
to police in
Bendel.’’
‘They are to put a stop to the persecution of innocent armed
robbers; a stop to police collusion with NURTW (Nigerian
Union of Road Transport Workers) and Ogboni cult members;
non-harassment by the police of market women returning
from village market; abolition of the collection of 5Ok - N5 (by
Highway Patrol); equal treatment for everybody; and fair
treatment for all legitimate drivers by the police.’’
Of course, ANINI had an eye on the public for sympathy and
support and he thought that his "manifesto" would win for
him this, but his chief enemy was TIME and the POLICE....
The police had said they would do everything to get ANINI
into the cooler. The force quickly replaced Akagbozu, the
hospitalised commissioner of police, with Parry Osayande
who until then was the Benue State police commissioner....
On arrival, the Governor, John Mark Inienger, gave a million
Naira to the police so that fund would not be the hindrance in
the ANINI project. And on Wednesday, 15 October 1986,
Muhamadu Gambo was appointed the Inspector General of
police. With this, the police seemed set to nail the most
wanted criminal of the time.....
But when the end of his bloody war on the police and people
in Bendel State came, LAWRENCE ANINI aka "THE LAW" was
a vulnerable man. His gang, the most notorious and feared in
the history of violent crime in Nigeria was decimated.... The
frequency of his spine-chilling mayhem had become periodic
violent assaults. He, too, must have known the end was
near....Cos The OBA have made sacrifices to his ancestors
and the GODS of the land.....and the GODS of the land which
ANINI heavily relied on have turned their back on him....
It eventually happened. It was a Wednesday, 3 December,
1986. "LAWRENCE NOMAYANUKPON ANINI, aka “THE LAW,”
Ovbigbo, ended his bloody career in a style that showed
graphically that all men are mortal. “I AM ANINI”, he told
policemen in a voice which betrayed a pathological fear of
death. “Please, take me to the hospital.” His legs had been
perforated by police guns....
As blood gushed out of his shattered left ankle and the badly
fractured right
leg, ANINI was overcome by fear induced by the acute
awareness that only an immediate intervention by man’s
modem medical “magic” could save him. The man whose
disdain for civilised society and all it represents, and who
relied heavily on juju, was willing and ready to seek help from
anywhere.
When the police came for him in the afternoon, ANINI was, as
usual, having a good time with six girls whom the Bendel
police boss, Parry Osayande - the man who meticulously
plotted his downfall- described as always behind the scenes
of crimes’’. He was startled- a clear indication that his
uncanny sense of timing and cunning had deserted him. He
attempted to flee. But this time, the police were prepared.
They rained bulltets on him, concentrating their shots on his
left ankle to ensure he would have no chance of
“VANISHING”.
His disappearance or so-called miraculous escapes from so
many scenes of bloody shoot-outs with the police had
become legendary. Along with the myth of his callous
exploits, the legend was finally and, like his left ankle,
shattered. |
ifyalways:What is tuke tuke!! Have you ever stayed in Benin? |
TRUTHTOPOWER:Ignore my previous reply.. I was a. year younger then! But I still hold my original views! Could yours stand the test of time and late passage of the padded budget? |
OreMI22:Enter : Niger Delta Avengers |
Osode:We were wrong.. Buhari didn't fail after all ! He's such a great leader, and I'm so proud of him. I love you president Bubu Osode:We were wrong.. Buhari didn't fail after all ! He's such a great leader, and I'm so proud of him. I love you president Bubu |
abduljabbar4:Because boko haram has stopped bombing on national festivals, no one is even scared anymore. instead the Fulani mafia Desert SEALs popularly known as Fulani herdsmen are carrying out attacks weekly in Southern communities, some of which are very far from their migratory routes. Daz oll |
ayokellany:The points you raised up there, Im sorry for making those senseless excuses. Tonight I stopped and realised that buhari has solved our problems. All of them. He practically washed the poisoned chalice |
IcecoldDon:How're you enjoying the buhari situation in your area? In mine I've not seen light since Friday.. I have to sleep in my office because I need light" |